Who Goes Nazi? (1941)
I get what the author is getting at.  Not sure I agree.  Many years ago, I read "Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland", which analyzes interviews with the actual men performing the slaughter of innocents at the end of the war.<p>The conclusion that book drew was different than this article, and makes more sense to me — that it's not "mean people 'go nazi'", but ordinary people who 'go nazi', given a system which relieves them of responsibility for their actions.  "Just following orders" was the typical & honest answer, if I recall.  The men didn't feel they bore a moral duty to disobey, because these things just had to be done, or so they were told.<p>So, if I can riff a bit on the article's themes... maybe mean people will hand you the gun, but <i>anyone</i> will pull the trigger, if they're told to do so.