In his seminal work “Obedience to Authority” published in 1974, Stanley Milgram addressed this human capacity to abide passively and without protest in the face of heinous cruelty and blatant deception. Crucially, Milgram wrote:
“There is always some element of bad form in objecting to the bad course of events, or indeed in making it a topic of conversation. Thus in Nazi Germany, even among those most closely identified with the Final Solution, it was considered an act of discourtesy to talk about the killings.”
—Margaret Bourke-White: Buchenwald Concentration Camp, April 11, 1945, for LIFE magazine—click image for source…
January 27: Holocaust Memorial Day. We will never understand, try as we may:
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