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To: Neocon who wrote (157151)	1/27/2005 8:41:49 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 281500

The experiment was about authority that is respected. The Weimar was weak, and had no authority after the worldwide depression and the US request for repayment of loans left Germany crippled. People respect lab coated scientists and expect them to be "right". People respect governments that work, and don't respect governments that seem to be falling apart. The Nazis had given the Germans a sense of pride after the horrible indignity of Versailles, and had managed to bring the country back from economic ruin and remilitarize it (remember the Weimar was abiding by the treaty and did not remilitarize, and this was a deep wound to the German psyche.) The Nazis earned the trust of the German people by producing a "better" society for them- and so the Germans repaid the trust by following orders. In countries with passionate nationalists following orders can be a problem, when the orders they are following are inherently uncivilized. It is not just the Nazis who were prone to obey commanding authority, humans are prone to obey commanding authority. It doesn't take much of a framework- a mere institution is enough- a police force, a military, whatever...

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