Comments by "Evan" (@MrEvanfriend) on "The JUSTIFIED Execution Of Jenny Barkmann - The BRUTAL Spectre Of Stutthof" video.

  1. Given the right circumstances, human beings are capable of being monsters. The Stanford Prison Experiment is an excellent example of this. Also, read the book Ordinary Men, by Christopher Browning - it's a study of a battalion of Ordnungspolitzei, or Orpo, made up of middle aged men who grew up before the Nazis took power, and were ordered to murder thousands (if not tens of thousands) of civilians, mostly Jews, during WWII. These were not fanatical Nazis, they were not men who knew nothing else, they were explicitly given a chance to avoid this duty, and yet about 90% of them committed these mass murders, and about 10% took to this duty with a sadistic enthusiasm. I like to think that I'm better than that, that I'd be a member of the resistance or something, but I don't know. I think it's just as likely that given the right circumstances, I would've been doing something horrible as well. I'm glad I didn't come up under such circumstances.
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  2. You don't have to be perfect, but at least TRY to pronounce German names/words properly.
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