Assignment 7- Usha Adhikari

Oct. 3
On this day he asked me what day it is, "it's October 3rd". - Mean Girls

On October 3rd of 1946, 22 Nazi leaders were found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg.

This was a good thing, hell this was great thing. In the sense that it put bad men who committed horrible crimes behind bars. But this also opens up the idea of Obedience. Just how far will someone go? In a study known as the milligram Experiment, subjects were told to 'shock' others using a box in the room. The box was labels with different amounts of shock, and the people were asked to go all the way up to the switch labeled as deadly. The subjects could not see the people they were "supposedly" shocking but they were able to "hear" them. Through this experiment, Milgram found that subjects would go all the way up to deadly 70% of the time, because they did not think they were the ones who would have to reap the consequences. Is this the same for Nazi leaders, did they abide to Hitler simply because they didn't think they would have to face the consequences or is it because they believed in his morals?  Either way, these people still committed horrible crimes.