Basic attribution error-milgram-s research on obedience

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David's history teacher asked him why several German people complied with Hitler's orders to systematically slaughter millions of innocent Jews. David recommended that atrocities were committed because Germans had become unusually cruel, sadistic people with abnormal and twisted personalities. Use knowledge of fundamental attribution error and Milgram's research on obedience to explain weaknesses of David's explanation.

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