It could be argued that such young men, schooled and formed solely under the conditions of the Nazi dictatorship, simply did not know any better. Killing Jews did not conflict with the value system they had grown up with…” The men of Police Battalion 101 could not use Nazi
All the men in that line were forced to go against their basic beliefs of human rights and equality, and there was nothing that could be done about it. War takes away the right of choice. Soldiers, especially in Germany, were
The punishments were not recorded or even bad to the point that it needed any attorneys to help the soldiers. These soldiers got an offer of not committing murder, and even if they refused to disobey the order, there were no punishments or dead threats. There was also another belief that the killers were all “innocent” people who did not know any better because of the propagandas and teachings that the Nazi put in their
All the orders Nazi soldiers obeyed are crimes that refuse forgiveness because these orders show us how evil soldiers’ hearts were when they killed millions of innocent Jewish people; consequently, we cannot forgive them because this action will go beyond our
In the article of “The Perils of Obedience”, written by Stanley Milgram, the experimenter explains that the experiment is to see how far a person could hurt a victim in a situation where he is ordered to do so. Also, in the article “The Stanford Prison
When you work in the Army, you do not have much of a choice when you are given an order, which makes it hard to define what actions from troops in the Army are the result of just following orders and what actions are ultimately their willful decision. In the book Gentlehands by M.E. Kerr, we can judge whether we believe Frank Trenker, also known as Gentlehands, should face justice for his actions as an SS Nazi soldier or if he should be left alone in peace. Mr. Trenker, like almost all Nazi soldiers at the time, killed millions of innocent people. He also lied on a legal document upon entrance to America. What sets his case apart is that he committed acts that were beyond his orders, such as tormenting his prisoners.
If a student didn’t believe the material they were learning was correct and started to believe different ideas, they would be punished. Hitler used this consequence to ensure everyone had the same mindset as him. Paragraph 4 states, “Nazi teachers did not tolerate disagreement or discussion of other viewpoints”. Even if students disagreed with what they were forced to believe, they had to follow it if they wanted to move onto university where they could learn about subjects they liked. Paragraph 9, it stated that Hitler had an overview of what he expected between the students.
The excavation of the African Burial Ground was an exciting time for the advancement of research and discovery of new knowledge. Research teams everywhere tried to collaborate on the project to conduct their own research, some demoralizing to the deceased. The New York Metropolitan Forensic Anthropology Team (MFAT) was highly concerned with gaining data towards the development of racial identification, in the name of biological anthropology. Racing methods look solely at the physical differences between Europeans and Africans, putting people on a spectrum of physical superiority and legitimizing the institution of slavery. MFAT focused on the absence or presences of stereotypical traits of Africans such as extreme jaw prognathism, extended
In the article “The German Military,” they mention, “...they carried out the systematic mass murder of 1.5-2 million Jewish men, women, and children throughout the East. The army was fully aware of these units.” This confirms that the military was aware of these deaths and was okay with it. Another important role was the amount of innocent people killed. The article “How Did the Nazis” shows an example of how the units took part in the murders of many people.
The experimenter continued to reassure the subject that the learner would be okay. Second, I believe that the subject continued because he felt obligated to continue because he signed up to complete the study.
For example, “The military also fell in line with the Nazi regime's racism and racial laws” (“The Role of the Military”). Therefore, the soldiers in the army accepted the racist views which led them to murder the Jews. For instance, “Individual Jews were also victims of assaults and threats of violence by SA men, Hitler Youth, and other Nazi activists who flexed their power with little fear of interference by the police or courts” (“Nazis and Their Collaborators Implement the Holocaust”). As a result, Jews were threatened with violence from several different groups. But the Nazi soldiers and German Army were some of the largest groups who took part, and there was no one to stop them.
Overall the soldiers were very responsible with their jobs and orders and they execute every one of them very
He saw that the more personal, or close, the real participant had to be to the fake one, while they were being shocked, affected the obedience as well. He also noticed that if there were two other fake participants teaching that refused to shock their learners that the real participant would not comply. Finally, he tested the experimenter telling the real patient to shock the learner by telephone, instead of actually being there in person, reduced obedience as well (McLead). The Milgram experiment and the Nuremburg trials can relate extensively to explain how the Holocaust happened the way it did.
Every time he spoke in defense of himself, he claimed that he just simply followed the order from his superiors. Obedience is the vocation of a solider, but it does not mean solider must carry out unethically inhuman order without any thinking. Blind obedience in this case caused a huge massacre to
The reading for this week from the book, “Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Bioethical Issues”, discussed the issue of abortion. The topic of abortion has always been a huge ethical discussion in America. The topic of abortion is so important that many of our potential political leader’s futures are based on their position with the issue. One also correlates one’s position of abortion to women’s right and religion. I personally believe that abortion should not be seen as immoral under certain circumstances.
