The Lucifer Effect: Palo Alto Highschool

In chapter 12 of The Lucifer Effect there was an experiment held by a history teacher named Ron Jones who wanted his class to experience the inhumanity of the Holocaust by simulating it. The experiment took place in five days and did not go as the teachers and school official planed. The simulation started off slow in only one history class where rules had to be obeyed everything the teacher says without question, they also made a rule where students could only answer questions in three words or less making it harder for the more intelligent students to show their dominance in the class. The class even made their own solute and slogan just as Hitler did. At this point things started to get more intense, students hung banners throughout the school to recruit new members, authoritarian members of the class started to kick the more intelligent students out of the class abusing them as they left, and soon enough the so called "Third Wave" class experiment became a school wide movement. Soon after a Third Wave Youth rally was announced, more than two hundred students who were so called the "true believers" waited for the announcement of the new presidential election for the third wave leader and soon they saw who they were all admiring and following, the former German Nazi leader Hitler. Out of all the experiments in The Lucifer Effect I personally find this the most disturbing, seeing how students like us were so easily manipulated to follow a former Nazi dictator sends a message that we shouldn't let our own desires overcome us. This shows us how as single powerful authority can turn us against our morals and beliefs and lead us astray,