Society's Influence on Morals. How the Germans were psycologically capable of killing the Jews during WWII

        The atrocities of the Holocaust have prompted much inquiry by researchers to understand how humans can behave so cruelly toward their fellow man. Theories have been formed that cite the men of Battalion 101 as "exceptions" or men with "faulty personalities," when, in fact, they were ordinary men. The people who attempted to perform a genocide were the same people as you and me with the only difference being the environment in which they worked. The …

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