Michael Karkoc's Milgram Experiment: Socially Formed

A 98 year old Minnesota man was accused of committing war crimes during WWII. He could face arrest and extradition to Poland because of his actions. Michael Karkoc was accused of deaths of 44 people in 1944. His son has denied the allegations and claimed it was fake history. Polish investigators had been working since 2013 to find the Ukraine commander. The commander was supposedly part of an organization who ordered soldiers to burn buildings and kill residents in nearby villages. Evidence was found leading to Karkoc, and his handwriting was compared with a list of salaries signed by commanders. US authorities still need to decide on whether to extradite Karkoc, but Polish authorities have said his age will not be a problem. This however,
The Milgram experiment demonstrated that people have been socially conditioned to follow instructions by an authoritarian figure. The participants in the Milgram experiment are pressured and almost verbally forced into continuing to deliver shocks to other participants for giving false answers. They had falsely been told the experiment was to determine the influence of punishment on memory. The results showed that 65% of the participants delivering the shocks delivered a fatal amount of voltage even knowing the destruction of it. It is hard for people to disobey because they have been socially conditioned to follow orders. It has been taught from a very young age and throughout school and multiple activities. Karkoc was put into situations where a looming authoritarian figure may have dominated his mindset, and pressured his actions. He was put into an area where it first may have seen like an “experiment”, but gradually became more real. The area became very hostile and made people start to go to extremes because the environment became extreme. It is very difficult for one person to act against the teachings and brainwash they may have experienced from the Holocaust. They were taught in their schools at a young age that they should persecute the Jews and they were socially conditioned to dislike them. In boot camp, soldiers are conditioned into following orders precisely and
Forgiveness is given to many people who have acted in self defensive of their families. This was war time, and he was protecting his family from the advancing troops by helping his country win. He was providing food and shelter to his family through his loyal service to his country and orders he was given. If seen from his point of view, it may not seem he is so guilty. He was instructed from his commanders to destroy these villages or else he would die, his troops may die, or even his family would die. He could have been put into a life or death situation involving more than just himself and felt he was protecting the lives of the love ones around him. Karkoc may have been protecting more people than he killed by following direct orders and this is not an inhumane act that many believe it to be. The influence wartime situations had on Karkoc may have caused him to not think of the actions he was doing in a humane sense. It taught him to think of it as wartime, just like the fake prison became a prison, and follow the orders given by his commander similar to the results of the Milgram’s experiment and our socially conditioned selves. Compare the devastation that the United States caused from the atomic bombs. The US is not as guiltless as many believe, and Karkoc is not as guilty as he seems. Karkoc was psychologically pressured and forced into following orders instantly and trying to defend his troop and