American Obedience

The story I chose to read was “If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably.” I chose to read this story because its title appealed to me. I was interested from the very start to find out what the author of this story was talking about. I have also been reading a lot about Hitler’s Germany lately, so I have been trying to obtain as much information on this topic as …

…continued with the experiment. This fact was very disturbing. The people who participated in the experiment were hurting innocent people, and although they realize it was wrong, they continued on, simply because they were told to. Anyone who believes that the only reason that the German nation went along with Hitler was because they were weak people should read about this experiment. It seems as though Americans would have gone along with him as well..