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Essay On Hitler's Fallowers

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having a better life and building the perfect community for them. There were several events that lead to the Holocaust, but these are the main ones that will be focused in this paper. The Nazi party members were mainly young and came from the industrial working class. At this time, people in Germany had suffered from the global depression after the U.S. stock market crushed, from the Spanish Civil War and now they were suffering due to the World War II. Hitler’s fallowers were looking forward to being in war, “many thought of war as exciting, like the games they played as children during World War I. The desire of being in war that Hitler’s fallowers had, made it easier for the Nazi party to take over and proceed with their idea of building …show more content…

The control that Hitler had on his fallowers was based on the physiological behavior that occurs when someone who has power is viewed as someone who is correct and their actions and beliefs are justifies. Stanley Milgram from Yale University conducted a research to test obedience to a toxic leader. The results show that when someone is given an order by a person in a higher power, there’s a high chance that people will do what ever they are told even if its hurting another person. The experiment consisted of a person with a white coat who was supposed to represent the researcher. The “researcher” asked volunteers to give electrical shocks to a person every time they got a question wrong. The volunteers also needed to increase the amount of electrical current until they reached a deathly amount, which the majority of the volunteers gave to the person. Even when the volunteers hear the other person screaming and asking to be released, they continued since they researcher told them to continue until they were told to stop. Based on this research we can see how much of a physiological influence a person with power has on its

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