Episode 17. The Forge of Freedom – Were the Perpetrators of the Holocaust Just Following Orders? What is the Milgram Experiment?

23/04/2023 26 min

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Episode 17. The Forge of Freedom – Were the Perpetrators of the Holocaust Just Following Orders? What is the Milgram Experiment?
 
In this episode, Alex Ooley discusses an experiment from the 1960s meant to determine why so many people fell in line to carry out the Holocaust. Were these individuals just following orders?
 
Resources:
 
"The Heist," a 2006 TV special by Derren Brown, features a reenactment of the Milgram experiment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heist_(Derren_Brown_special)
 
"Authority" is an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit inspired by the Milgram
experiment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authority_(Law_%26_Order:_Special_Victims_Unit)
 
"Experimenter," a 2015 film about Milgram, by Michael Almereyda, was screened at the 2015
Sundance Film Festival.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimenter_(film)
 
https://www.psy.miami.edu/_assets/pdf/rpo-articles/milgram-1963.pdf
 
https://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html
 
https://store.mises.org/Politics-of-Obedience-P529.aspx
 
https://www.thoughtco.com/milgram-experiment-4176401
 
https://resources.saylor.org/wwwresources/archived/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PSYCH202A-3.1.1-Milgram-experiment.pdf
 
https://www.uncp.edu/sites/default/files/2019-01/Milgrim%20Experiment%20Common%20Lit.pdf
 
https://mises.org/library/milgram-experiment-0
 
https://mises.org/library/milgram-experiment
 
https://mises.org/library/brighter-look-milgrams-obedience-study
 
https://www.simplypsychology.org/simplypsychology.org-milgram.pdf
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

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