Who remembers the holocaust? Or does anybody here knows the
holocaust...
Today in class during group discussions, I threw in the word
holocaust when we were brainstorming... To my surprise, 90% of my
19-20 yr old classmates didn't even know what it is...
Haiz, never teach this unfortunate event meh?
And the amazing, but really sad fact is that it's all an act of
a few devils. The other Nazis...are simply following orders.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
"The Milgram
experiment was a seminal series of social
psychology experiments conducted
by Yale
University psychologist Stanley Milgram, which
measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to
perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience.
...
The experiments
began in July 1961, three months after the start of the trial
of Nazi war
criminal Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Milgram devised the experiments to answer
this question: "Could it be that Eichmann and his million
accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we
call them all accomplices?"[3]
...
In Milgram's first set of experiments,
65 percent (26 of
40)[1] of experiment participants administered
the experiment's final 450-volt shock, though many were very
uncomfortable doing so; at some point, every participant paused and
questioned the experiment, some said they would refund the money
they were paid for participating in the experiment. No participant steadfastly refused to
administer shocks before the 300-volt level.[1]
...
The Milgram Experiment raised questions about
the ethics of scientific
experimentation because of the extreme emotional stress suffered by
the participants. In Milgram's defense, 84 percent of former
participants surveyed later said they were "glad" or "very glad" to
have participated, 15 percent chose neutral responses (92% of all
former participants responding).[10] Many later wrote
expressing thanks. Milgram repeatedly received offers of assistance
and requests to join his staff from former participants. Six years
later (at the height of the Vietnam War), one of the
participants in the experiment sent correspondence to Milgram,
explaining why he was glad to have participated despite the
stress:
'While I
was a subject in 1964, though I believed that I was hurting
someone, I was totally unaware of why I was doing so. Few people
ever realize when they are acting according to their own beliefs
and when they are meekly submitting to authority . . . . To
permit myself to be drafted with the understanding that I am
submitting to authority's demand to do something very wrong would
make me frightened of myself . . . . I am fully prepared to go to
jail if I am not granted Conscientious
Objector status. Indeed, it is the only course I could
take to be faithful to what I believe. My only hope is that members
of my board act equally according to their conscience . . .
.'"
