200 Students Joined a Movement That Was Never Real

A history teacher wanted to answer one question for his class: how did ordinary people let Nazi Germany happen? Five days later, he had 200 students saluting, reporting on each other, and waiting for a leader who didn't exist. This is the story of the Third Wave — a 1967 classroom experiment that spiraled far past what anyone intended, what it actually reveals about structure, belonging, and obedience, and the inconvenient detail almost no retelling of this story ever mentions. Chapters: 0:00 – Intro 1:16 – Spring 1967, Palo Alto 2:29 – Day Three: It Spreads 3:11 – Day Four: Losing Control 3:49 – Day Five: The Auditorium 4:34 – What Nobody Talks About 5:32 – Why the Story Repeats Itself 6:06 – The Real Reason It Worked 6:58 – The Modern Parallel 7:55 – What Happened After If you found this video interesting, subscribe for more deep dives into the psychology of how ordinary people end up doing extraordinary things. #ThirdWaveExperiment #Psychology #History