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