The staged reconstruction of socio-psychological expermients help to understand why perpetrators did not refuse to follow the most horrific orders. Stefan Ruzowitzky is not looking to excuse murderous behavior, but he wants to know which mechanisms lead to the indescribable evil of the Holocaust and other genocides:


  1. The Asch Conformity Experiments

  2. The Stanford Prison Experiment

  3. The Milgram-Experiment


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