Question

Essay question david's history teacher asked him why so many german people complied with hitler's orders to systematically slaughter millions of innocent jews. david suggested that the atrocities were committed because the germans had become unusually cruel, sadistic people with abnormal andtwisted personalities. use your knowledge of the fundamental attribution error and milgram's research on obedience to highlight the weaknesses of david's explanation.

Answer 1

The systematic slaughter of the millions of innocent Jews as compliance of the German people to Hitler's orders can be explained in the ff: firstly, Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE) is when people believed in internal factors or the intention as a reason to do something. Milgram obedience study, further shown that if person is given a role, he will just simply obey without already thinking too much about it.