Ordinary Men
One of the most devastating and frightening time-periods of our history was during the Second World War, when between five and six million Jewish civilians were killed throughout Europe in a mass genocide. A large portion of the Jews were killed by the Nazis under Hitler’s regime. However, thousands more of them were also put to death by the German Reserve Police Battalion 101. The members of the reserve police were middle-aged men who were not forced to kill the many defenseless citizens who had died. They were given the option to step away, and refuse to engage in such brutal acts without being penalized. However, only a small fifteen to twenty percent of these men accepted the choice given to them, while a significant majority were soon going to be a large part of one of the most disturbing eras in history; the Holocaust. Since the end of this dreadful time-period, many questions have been raised concerning why most of the German men in the reserve police participated, when they were given the option not to. The ideas of obedience to authority and conformity were studied by the social scientist, Stanley Milgram. Toward the end of the Holocaust, Milgram became very interested in these two concepts and their relation to
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Approximate Word count = 1669
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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