Just finished a disturbing documentary on Netflix: Ordinary Men

[CanonRay]

About the Nazi execution squads on the Eastern Front in WWII. It focused on a particular unit, the 101st Police Battalion from Hamburg and how utterly ordinary they were, most weren't party members, just average people. A look at the psychology of mass killing and how they justify it to themselves. What is terrifying is I can imagine the MAGAts doing this if Shitler gets back in.

[SYFROYH]

1. And ordinary is easily 2/3 of the population.

That's the lesson of the Stanley Milgram Obedience studies and all the follow-up studies. It really is amazing how many ordinary people will hurt or kill their fellow persons on command from a recognized authority figure.

[beaglelover]

2. Is this a new doc? I watched one that sounds about the same. The one fact that surprised me was that if a man

assigned to one of these squads said that he just could NOT kill someone who was not threatening him, then he was assigned to some other squad that did not have to kill. So, these men had the choice to kill or not to kill.

[doc03]

3. That was The Ordinary Man, I watched it too. But the men that refused were

shunned, called traitors and they gave them the worst jobs.

[beaglelover]

5. I'd rather be shunned and called a traitor than kill a human being who is posing no threat to me.

[barbaraann]

4. Like the Milgram experiment

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