In 1942,German reserve police officers obeyed orders to kill 1500 Jews in the village of Jozefow,Poland.This incident illustrated that people are most likely to be destructively obedient when

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The incident at Jozefow illustrates the phenomenon of destructive obedience, in which individuals comply with orders and engage in harmful behavior towards others when they perceive the orders to come from legitimate authority figures. The reserve police officers in this case obeyed orders from their superiors in the Nazi regime without questioning the morality of their actions or considering the humanity of their victims. The distance and depersonalization of the Jews in the village may have made it easier for the officers to carry out the killings, but the key factor in their obedience was their sense of duty to authority. Therefore, choice C is the best answer.

In 1942,German Reserve Police Officers Obeyed Orders to Kill 1500