The Nazi regime came to power in German in 1933. In the same year, in August, Stanley Milgram was born into a working class Jewish family in the Bronx in New York City. Throughout his childhood Stanley was acutely aware of his family’s worries concerning Nazi Germany. Milgram (1963) was interested in understanding how Nazi officers and soldiers could commit the atrocities they did in the Holocaust. Milgram became interested especially in obedience since it was being suggested after the Second World War that the German people must have some national character defect which made them especially susceptible to obeying orders. At the Nuremburg trials after the World war 11, Nazi justified that they were only following orders.
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