In the early 70s taking psychology classes at a University I was participated, cause it paid, in psy experiments that mirrored the Stanford experiments, Milgram experiments and measurement of cognitive dissonance and acceptance of authority
I didn't score well on acceptance of authority and revolted against it in some of the experiments
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanfo...son_experiment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
Anyway I was unaware of this experiment done by a History teacher in 67 in California and the ABC after school special in the 80s that showed how easy and quickly it was to move young minds into a fascist type cult aka Hitler youth. This is the story (trailer) of the Third Wave experiment as told by the students and their teacher, Ron Jones
This is the ABC after school special. The Wave is a short made-for-TV movie directed by Alex Grasshoff, based on The Third Wave experiment, which was a social test created by high school history teacher Ron Jones to explain how the German populace could accept the actions of the Nazi regime during the Second World War.
The Wave is a 1981 young adult novel by Todd Strasser under the pen name Morton Rhue (though it has been reprinted under Todd Strasser's real name). It is a novelization of a teleplay by Johnny Dawkins for the movie The Wave, a fictionalized account of the "Third Wave" teaching experiment by Ron Jones that took place in a Ellwood P. Cubberley High School history class in Palo Alto, California. The novel by Strasser won the 1981 Massachusetts Book Award for Children's/Young Adult literature.
More about the film (I know its dated and over dramatic but worth consideration
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083316/
There is also a 2008 German tv film in a similar vain called DIE WELLE
