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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6295516544338309782&hl=en

The Third Wave was the name given by history teacher Ron Jones to an experimental recreation of Nazi Germany which he conducted with high school students.
The experiment took place at Cubberley High School in Palo Alto, California, during one week in 1969,
Jones, unable to explain to his students why the German citizens (particularly non-Nazis) allowed the Nazi Party to exterminate millions of Jews and other so-called 'undesirables', decided to show them instead. Jones writes that he started with simple things like classroom discipline, and managed to meld his history class into a group with a supreme sense of purpose and no small amount of cliquishness. Jones named the movement "The Third Wave," after the common wisdom that the third in a series of ocean waves is always the strongest, and claimed its members would revolutionize the world. The experiment allegedly took on a life of its own, with students from all over the school joining in; Jones wrote that he agonized over the outcome of the exercise before bringing it to a halt by claiming that the movement had a world-wide leader, and then displaying a film clip of him.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave

This was highly moving for me.
The parallels to cohersive groups is astounding and riveting.

A must see for those recovering.

THE THIRD WAVE is a book by Toffler --not the movie

joe

This is a must see for anyone and everyone for it demonstrates how easily people give away their power. Watching it, I nearly felt as though I was in rse. I am so relieved that I and a few others I talked to feel the same - that we are indeed individuals with individual thought and ideas. So in telling people they are powerful, rse disempowers. The beginners group seems 'playful' and then you're deeper into it. You don't know for certain what is occurring, but the voice inside, which you are told is your own 'doubt', this voice inside knows.

Chilling video.