Responsibility IV

And responsibility became inseparable from his relationship to the authority of the regime: "The whole system radiated that authority. Like it or not, I was part of it. . . . I had no choice. I was in this web -- this network of authority If you talk to people [in general terms about possibly leaving], they would say, you have to stay wherever you are, ... where you are needed. Don’t disturb the organization."
--Robert Jay Lifton, "The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing And The Psychology Of Genocide", p. 106