Milgram's Studies

Just an interesting experiment i saw on BBC4 (a indie channel in the UK). Stanley Milgram was a Jew living in America not long after the Second World War and subsequently, not long after the Holocaust. Milgram was performing a study as to why the Nazi soldiers serving under Hitler and his posse would possibly choose to perform such an unspeakable horror as the holocaust. Before the war these people were rational, friendly normal people. Yet they were suddenly driven to killing millions of innocent Jews.
Milgram wanted to find out why they would do this, and whether it could be imitated.
Milgram created an experiment wherein he placed 10 people in a room with a series of switches and on the other side of the room an actor with a two-way mirror. The subject was tasked with asking the actor a series of questions, every time the questioned answered a question wrong, they were supposedly given an increasingly high voltage of electric shock. However, in reality the actor would pretend to be shocked and the reaction of the subject would be recorded. The final voltage could kill a man.
During the test, 7 out of 10 subjects thought they had delivered lethal doses of electricity to the actor, only one person refused to complete the test, the others stopped doing it before the lethal voltage.
I'd like to hear your thoughts on what this says about being in a position of power and how it can corrupt people.

Learned about this in psychology.

My question would be when are we going to learn from it.

I didn't know the history of the experimentor though, which is quite apt and appropriate given current global political climates.

As an American today I already feel like a german crying out against the nazis and generally have such cries fall on deaf ears or even facing violent rebuke protecting and endorsing and even calling out for more wars.

People, America is on the ground or bombing openly 5 countries, right now! With plans for boots on the ground in Libya this year and the intention of inflamming Pakistan further for more destabilization and all out middle east meltdown!

In tandem with global financial meltdown and the ultimate plans of those behind all of these things, there is nothing more important in the world today.

But hardly anyone seems to notice or care. So we get what we deserve, enjoy.