Understanding willing participants. Volume 2, Milgram's obedience experiments and the Holocaust / Nestar Russell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to Volume 2 - The "Twisted Road" to Auschwitz -- The Nazi Regime - Ideology, Ascendancy, and Consensus -- World War Two and Nazi Forays into the Killing of Civilians -- Operation Barbarossa and the Holocaust by Bullets - Top-Down Forces -- Operation Barbarossa and the Holocaust by Bullets - Bottom-Up Forces -- The Rise of Operation Reinhard -- The Solution to the Jewish Question - Auschwitz-Birkenau -- The Nazi's Pursuit for a "Humane" Method of Killing -- Conclusion - The Milgram-Holocaust Linkage and Beyond.

"Horrified by the Holocaust, social psychologist Stanley Milgram wondered if he could recreate the Holocaust in the laboratory setting. Unabated for more than half a century, his (in)famous results have continued to intrigue scholars... [Volume 2] illustrates how certain innovators within the Nazi regime used the very same Milgram-like learning techniques that with increasing effectiveness gradually enabled them to also transform most ordinary people into increasingly capable executioners of other men, women, and children. Volume two effectively attempts to capture how step-by-step these Nazi innovators attempted to transform the Führer’s wish of a Jewish-free Europe into a frightening reality."--Publisher's website.