1. John P. Sabini and Maury Silver, “Destroying the Innocent with a Clear Conscience: A Sociopsychology of the Holocaust,” in Survivors, Victims, and Perpetrators: Essays on the Nazi Holocaust, ed. Joel E. Dimsdale (New York: Hemisphere, 1980), 357.
2. Stanley Milgram, interview, “I Was Only Following Orders,” 60 Minutes, CBS, 31 March 1979, 7-8 of transcript.
3. as quoted in Thomas Blass, “The Social Psychology of Stanley Milgram,” in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, ed. Mark P. Zanna, vol. 25 (New York: Academic Press, 1992), 305.
4. See Stanley Milgram, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View (New York: Harper-Colophon, 1974). Milgram’s book summarizes and interprets the experiments which originally appeared as a series of articles in social psychology journals. Thomas Blass traces the impact of Milgram’s obedience studies in Blass, “The Social Psychology of Stanley Milgram,” 277-329.
5. Roger Brown, Social Psychology: The Second Edition (New York: Free Press, 1986), 2. Brown’s book contains an excellent introduction to the implications of Milgram’s research, and originates the concept of the “Eichmann fallacy”—the belief that evil acts presuppose an evil person as actor (5).