http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

http://www.new-life.net/milgram.htm

measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience

Milgram devised the experiments to answer the question: “Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all accomplices?”

later wrote Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View by Stanley Milgram (1974)

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