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Seems like a good time to remind people about The Third Wave Experiment. (en.wikipedia.org)
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I don't want to assume that under 30s' have heard about it. I suspect it's not in the typical public school curriculum anymore.

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TIL that in 1967, an American high school teacher created a fake authoritarian movement called “The Third Wave” to show his students how ordinary Germans could have supported the rise of Nazism. W... (en.wikipedia.org)
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Original Title: TIL that in 1967, an American high school teacher created a fake authoritarian movement called “The Third Wave” to show his students how ordinary Germans could have supported the rise of Nazism. Within days, students had became so radicalised that he decided to end the experiment.