Topic > The Ins and Outs of Stanley Milgram - 731

Milgram believed that what he found, this completely blind obedience, could help explain why people would commit such atrocities. While Milgram believed this to be true, Parker and Baumrind did not. In “Blind Obedience Had Terrible Consequences for Nazi Germany and Hitler,” Andrew Azzopardi, uses the stories of many Nazis to prove the whole point of blind obedience (Azzopardi). Furthermore, an article published by Santa Clara University gives rise to the idea that blind obedience and the power of situations definitely play a role in the conversation about the Holocaust. (Velasquez, et.al.) Even Adolf Eichmann, the great organizer of the concentration camps, who was himself disgusted by the camps, said: "I was one of the many horses pulling the cart and I could escape neither to the right nor to the left due to the will of the driver." Thus proving that even accomplished men and women in these circumstances will follow orders. But if all this is true, it means that the central ideas put forward by Parker and Baumrind are false, thus compromising the integrity and credibility of their works. These contradictions impact the effectiveness of Baumrind and Parker's works, but overall they still logically and fairly convey the points they are working on.