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Understanding Willing Participants, Volume 1 : Milgram's Obedience Experiments and the Holocaust / by Nestar Russell.

9783319958163
331995816X
3319958151
9783319958156

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

English

1 online resource (XII, 294 pages 14 illustrations) : online resource

10.1007/978-3-319-95816-3 doi

HM1001-1281

155.2
302

Horrified by the Holocaust, social psychologist Stanley Milgram wondered if he could recreate the Holocaust in the laboratory setting. Unabated for more than half a century, his (in)famous results have continued to intrigue scholars. Based on unpublished archival data from Milgram's personal collection, volume one of this two-volume set introduces readers to a behind the scenes account showing how during Milgram's unpublished pilot studies he step-by-step invented his official experimental procedure-how he gradually learnt to transform most ordinary people into willing inflictors of harm. Volume two then illustrates how certain innovators within the Nazi regime used the very same Milgram-like learning techniques that with increasing effectiveness gradually enabled them to also transform most ordinary people into increasingly capable executioners of other men, women, and children. Volume two effectively attempts to capture how step-by-step these Nazi innovators attempted to transform the Führer's wish of a Jewish-free Europe into a frightening reality. By the books' end the reader will gain an insight into how the seemingly undoable can become increasingly doable.

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