He demonstrated that most people would not be able to resist such pressure and would rather follow it. Follow him to the point that they might even kill someone for the authority figure because he said to move on. Of course the actor in the room didn't actually die, but the subjects didn't know that at the time. The experiment put a whole new spin on how people look at the Holocaust and all human cruelty under oppressive authority. Some psychologists have even found that such studies should not happen. Stanley Milgram broke down the walls that people had built to separate themselves from Nazi Germany. Words like “monsters,” “psychopaths,” and others are used against Holocaust guards to separate them from “normal”.”