Respond to the following:
Genocide is dependent on the complicity of ordinary people. How do the two social scientific studies that we explored in this course – Milgram and Zimbardo – shed light on the capacity of average people to commit evil acts? Specifically, analyze the ways in which they are helpful for understanding the role of Reserve Battalion 101 during the Holocaust. While both studies relate to the behavior of the reserve police, why does Browning find Zimbardo more relevant than Milgram for understanding how this group of ordinary men became mass murderers?
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