>"Military officers and gestapo thugs were compliant because they thought they are helping their race in struggle for survival in competition against hostile en

>"Military officers and gestapo thugs were compliant because they thought they are helping their race in struggle for survival in competition against hostile ennemy race." Yes, this seems likely. Which flies completely in the face with the tradition narrative of the Milgram Experiments: that people follow the orders of authority figures blindly. What the Milgram experiments actually showed is that people are willing to do something they normally wouldn't if they believe in the cause. The teachers in the Milgram experiments believed in science and were willing to step outside their comfort zone to advance science. The Gestapo believed in their cause too, and were similarly willing to do things a man otherwise wouldn't. In both of these cases they weren't simply doing what they were told, they were not blindly following orders as Adolf Eichmann had unpersuasively pleaded.