Dig Down Deep. Episode 5. Obedience And Why Humans Obey?
I would like to start off this episode by talking about a person named Adolf Eichmann, and if you think he’s somehow related to the most famous Adolf ever, then you are not wrong. Adolf Eichmann was a Lieutenant Colonel in the German Nazi party and one of the major organizers of the holocaust and during the time he served was responsible for the death of 4,37,000 Jews out of the total 7,25,000 Jews in Hungary between March 1944 to July 1944. Just 5 months Let that sink in. Finally in the early 1960’s when he was caught and found guilty of his crimes against humanity, he said that he was just following orders. This triggered a debate in the psychology world putting out a very important question which was that “To what extent will a human obey orders and why?” One of the most famous researches in this field was conducted by an American psychologist named Stanley Milgram, who conducted an experiment called the “Obedience to authority” in the year 1961. Here is how the experiment took...
