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I debate a little about how much Nazism had to do with psychopathic behavior. Cause you don't clinically need to be a monster to engage in mass murder/genocide/war crimes. A massive logistical operation like the Holocaust (including mass killings) of tens of millions of people just doesn't work if it requires all the participants be mentally disturbed.
We should know from the Milgram and Standford experiments that perfectly normal people can do monstrous things just by manipulating their environments. And this was under systems where there was no duress of punishment (Milgram) or everyone knew it was an experiment (Stanford). Those experiments should tell you all you need to know in why people could go along with the Holocaust.
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