Stanley Milgram — American Psychologist born on August 15, 1933, died on December 20, 1984

Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist, best known for his controversial experiment on obedience conducted in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale. Milgram was influenced by the events of the Holocaust, specifically the trial of Adolf Eichmann, in developing this experiment... (wikipedia)

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.