Naziism

1
Naziism Holocaust

• Eichmann in Jerusalem
• Obedience to Authority
• Sanctioned Massacres

2
Anti-Semitism

• Christian Jews as killers of God
• agents of Satan / killers of babies
• money-lenders
• Nazi communist conspiracy
• conspiracy of financiers
• biological race theory parasites
• bacteria
• vermin

3
Nazi-ismLeader Principle Prejudice
Authoritarian Personality (T. Adorno et al)
Obedience to Authority (S. Milgram)
Eichmann
4
Eichmann

• Anti-Semitic?
• Authoritarian?
• Personality change?
• Conscience?
• Banality of Evil?

5
Milgram Obedience Experiment

• Subject plays teacher role
• Confederate plays learner role
• Confederate plays experimenter role

6
Milgram Obedience Experiment

• Series of experiments
• Indep. variables proximity of authority
• salience of victim
• group admin of shock
• Dep. Variable shock level

7
Results from main variations
8
Results from main variations
9
Factors increasing obedience

• Authority of experimenter
• Proximity of experimenter
• Distance form victim
• Absence of dissenters
• Presence of other compliers
• Reduced role in giving shock
• Authority of institution

10
Milgrams Theory

• Force fields
• Subject switches state
• autonomous ? agentic
• conscience inhibited in agentic state

11
Zimbardo Prison Experiment

• Abu Ghraib?

12
(No Transcript)
13
(No Transcript)
14

15
Zimbardo Prison Experiment

• Random assignment of prisoners guards
• 5 released extreme emotional depression,
  crying, rage and acute anxiety
• Ended after 6 days

16
Zimbardo Prison Experiment

• Guards found sense of power was exhilarating
• Prisoner responses
• Disbelief
• Rebellion
• Isolation, self-interest, deprecation
• Half became sick

17
Zimbardo Prisoner Responses

• Loss of personal identity
• Deindividuation
• Learned helplessness
• Emasculation
• ? Power of role

18
Nazi DoctorsRobert J. Lifton

• Doubling
• Doctors create Auschwitz self
• Shift between two selves

19
States ? Selves

• Milgram 45 min. state change
• Zimbardo 6 days role/identity change
• Lifton months double self
• ? State develops into self ??

20
Functions of the ExecutiveChester Barnard, 1938

• Two modes of viewing treating others
• 1) outside of organizations, people can act as
  unique individuals
• 2) as member of organizations, people are
  depersonalized, and regarded in their purely
  functional aspects, as phases of cooperation.

21
Functions of the ExecutiveChester Barnard, 1938

• Every participant in an organization may be
  regarded as having a dual personality -- an
  organization personality and an individual
  personality.

22
Functions of the ExecutiveChester Barnard, 1938

• At lower levels in the hierarchy organi-zations
  create a zone of indifference
• Within which orders are acceptable without
  conscious questioning of their authority.
• Makes it possible normally to treat a personal
  question impersonally.

23
Functions of the ExecutiveChester Barnard, 1938

• Higher levels in hierarchy requires creation of
  2nd personality -- organizational personality
  -- aligned with goals of organization
• Most executive decisions appear in the guise
  of technical decisions, and their moral aspects
  are not consciously appreciated. An executive
  may make many important decisions without
  reference to any sense of personal interest or of
  morality.

24
Sanctioned Massacres

• Nazi Mobile Killing Units
• MyLai
• Rwanda?
• Iraqi militias?

25
My Lai
26
MY LAI MASSACRE MARCH 16, 1968
27
Lt. Calley

• Sentenced to life in prison released in 1974

28
Hugh Thompson
29
Hugh Thompson
30
Sanctioned MassacresH. Kelman

• Authorization
• Routinization
• De-individuation of actor
• De-humanization of victims

31
Sanctioned Massacres

• Authorization authority situation
• relieves individual of moral responsibility
• calls into play morality of loyalty duty
• Routinization role in organization
• task becomes a job
• violence broken into tasks
• language of euphamisms

32
Sanctioned Massacres

• De-individuation of the actor
• individual takes on identity of organization
• de-emphasize personal characteristics
• De-humanization of the victims
• victims given group identity
• victims portrayed as non-human
• Deprived of membership in common human group

33
Sanctioned Massacres

• Killers torturers can be made
• Tearing-down re-construction of identity
• separation
• liminal phase of instruction, rehearsal
  testing
• return in new status