October 18, 2016 Tuesday
Bedtime Story
What Did Instigate Stanley Milgram to Carry Out His Experiments?
What Did Instigate Stanley Milgram to Carry Out His Experiments?
Stanley Milgram did his Ph.D. in social psychology from
Harvard in 1960 and then became a tenured professor at the City University of
New York Graduate Center.
He was born of Romanian mother and Hungarian father who
had fled Europe during the madness of World War I.
He and his parents were Jewish and his family members
who had stayed back in Europe after the World War I went on to become victims
of the Holocaust.
Milgram’s father made a living by opening a bakery in
the Bronx of New York City.
Stanley Milgram himself excelled in studies doing his
bachelors (political science) from Queens College, later at Brooklyn College
and finally PhD in social psychology from Harvard.
Between 1961 and 1964 Milgram joined Yale as assistant
professor where he carried out his controversial experiments on human subjects.
But what goaded his mind to conduct these peculiar
series of experiments that he did?
His being Jewish and his family having directly
suffered the Nazi concentration camps was one of course.
The other decisive reason was the ongoing trial of
Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) lieutenant colonel at the Jerusalem
District Court in Israel.
Eichmann was taking direct orders from Reinhard
Heydrich (appointed by none other than Heinrich Himmler) and the preeminent
architect of the Holocaust.
Heydrich had made Eichmann his “special expert” as
early as in 1939 making him in charge of deportation of the Polish Jews.
Poland had been invaded in September 1, 1939 and since
then Nazi policy towards Jews had changed; from voluntary exile to force
deportations.
Eichmann and his staff organized the deportation and
transport and of Hungarian Jews when Germany invaded Hungary in March of 1944.
So efficient were his team that within a matter of 3
months, 725,000 Jews had been transferred to the concentration camps where
437,000 immediately were killed on arrival.
Similar was the policy of this efficient Nazi killing
machinery as the blitzkrieg started into the Soviet Union in June 1941.
When the Germany eventually lost, Eichmann even though
captured by the American troops, cunningly got forged documents and escaped to
Argentina with the help of an Austrian Bishop.
Over there he succeeded in getting a job
with Mercedes-Benz and even rising to become the head of the department and constructing
a beautiful house in Buenos Aires by the end of 1960.
Little did he know that in the Nuremberg Trials damning
evidence of his heinous activities were being squealed out (under interrogation) from his former
comrades.
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Another great educator and teacher that I am aware of is Professor
Subhashish Chattopadhyay in Bangalore, India.
While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an IIT graduate and
a former professor at BARC, actually does and teaches real mathematics and
physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the International
Physics Olympiad.
Do visit him here:
All
his books can be downloaded for free through this link.
For
edu-tainment of your children may I suggest Kids Songs channel.
The trial of Adolf Eichmann at the Jerusalem District Court began on April 11, 1961. He was hunted down and captured by a team from Mossad on May 11, 1960 in Buenos Aires
"Ricardo Klement", the identity that Eichmann used to enter Argentina in 1950. The passport was issued by Red Cross
Hardly a trace of repentance or guilt is seen on this face
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