Obedience In Perspective: Psychology and the Holocaust

Abstract

Stanley Milgrams explanation of the Holocaust in terms of the mechanism of obedience is too narrow. While obedience was one mechanism which contributed to the outcome, the murder of Jews and others was the work of people from a broad swath of German society, from economists who planned mass starvation to ordinary soldiers in the Wehrmacht, often acting without duress or apparent pressures to conform.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2015
Accession Number
AD1013438

Entities

People

  • George R. Mastroianni

Organizations

  • United States Air Force Academy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Genocide
  • History
  • Human Behavior
  • Leadership
  • Motivation
  • New York
  • Personality
  • Political Science
  • Prejudice
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Societies
  • Thinking
  • United States

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