But Milgram was not only surprised by his results, he was repulsed. Soon after the experiment, he wrote in a letter to the National Science Foundation: In a naïve moment some time ago, I once wondered whether in all of the United States a vicious government could find enough moral imbeciles to meet the personnel requirements of a national system of death camps, of the sort that were maintained in Germany. I am now beginning to think that the full complement could be recruited in New Haven.
