disobey‚ and as consequences may be unknown if they do not follow what they are asked to do‚ fear of punishment may influence the person to then respond by submitting to what they have been told to do. Milgram’s study was done after the trial of Adolf Eichmann. This was after the holocaust where 6 million Jews were murdered. This trial displayed an example of destructive obedience where people were said to have complied with what they were told to do‚ even if it had a negative impact on others‚ which
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Mrs. Lovejoy English J075 Essay #3 I would not be the kind of person who takes orders blindly whether it is from an authority figure or not. I personally would not like to be on the opposite end of this situation therefore I would find myself resisting the orders to end another’s life. Sometimes you don’t have the necessary amount of time to decide whether or not what you are being asked to do is the right thing or not‚ and in those kinds of situations people normally find themselves making
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Goebbel was one of Adolf Hilters closest associates. He earned a PhD from Heidelberg University in 1921. Goebbel came into the Nazi party in 1923 where he could put his propaganda skills to use. In “Why Are Things So Difficult for Us”‚ Goebbel used fear‚ pride‚ and rational facts to turn the Germens against the Jews. Goebbel is known to be the best at Propaganda and he shows this by brainwashing the Germens with pride. In paragraph 4 he says “It is because we are of greater value than other peoples
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What really happened behind the closed gates of Auschwitz? It seems there is not enough words to describe the tragedy that happened inside‚ but but do we truly know the horrors inside. It is said all you could hear inside of Auschwitz was the screams of prisoners and the smell of burning flesh. In my paper I will be demonstrating the effects of what happened behind the closed doors of Auschwitz. There were many Holocaust camps ‚but Auschwitz is world renown because of the especially cruel treatment
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Why Not Everyone Is A Torturer - Oliver Behrensdorff What are the causes of atrocity events such as the massacre at My Lai‚ the abuse and torture of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib or the extermination of Jews during World War II? Whether groups of people bestowed with unaccountable power naturally resort to violence or not‚ the subject is indeed controversial. Arguably‚ the less restrictions that one must follow‚ the higher the risk becomes of one to condone violence. However‚ how can we explain
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Nuremberg War Criminal trials. Their defense often was based on "obedience" - that they were just following orders from their superiors. The experiments began in July 1961‚ a year after the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Milgram devised the experiment to answer the question "Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all accomplices?" (Milgram‚ 1974). Milgram (1963) wanted to investigate whether Germans were particularly
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offered by those accused at the World War II‚ Nuremberg War Criminal trials. Their defense often was based on "obedience" - that they were just following orders of their superiors. The experiments began in July 1961‚ a year after the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Milgram (1963) wanted to investigate whether Germans were particularly obedient to authority figures as this was a common explanation for the Nazi killings in World War II. Milgram selected participants for his experiment by advertising
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grew up as a Jew in New York‚ horrified to learn what was happening in Europe under the Nazi regime. One of Hitler’s best men in the crime against humanity was Adolf Eichmann. Upon his capture and trial‚ he claimed: ‘ I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn’t escape left or right because of the will of the driver’ – (Eichmann cited by Marchione‚ 2002) shifting the blame to Hitler itself and insisted that he was only obeying Hitler’s orders. As an undergraduate student Milgram was
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9‚ April 2013 Adolf Hitler Many issues affect a person on who they become whether it is the environment or even inner conflict. Adolf Hitler was no exception; he was born on the year 1889 and died on 1945‚ an era that was stressful. The death of his beloved family members‚ his difficult childhood‚ and the chances he took looking for he was to become in life‚ affected Adolf Hitler immensely. Alois Hitler and Klara Hitler had a total of 6 children‚ only 2 out of the 6 survived: Adolf Hitler and Paula
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When given the task to dismiss a four hundred fifty volt to another human being you don’t know‚ what would you do in that instant if it’d be for the greater cause of science and knowledge? In discussion of psychologist Stanley Milgram‚ a controversial issue has been whether or not Milgram’s experiment was based on the ethical conflict between obedience to authority versus personal conscience. On the one hand‚ some argue that it was ethical because it would explain Nazi behavior. From this perspective
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