The Milgram Obedience Experiment was conducted in 1961 just after World War II and the war crimes trials of the Nazis were taking place. An ad was placed in the newspaper for a memory and learning experiment at $4.50 an hour, but in the end the experiment was about obedience. The experiment was conducted on behalf of Adolph Eichmann who was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity, but he only followed orders. Eichmann issued death sentences but never carried out the murders. The goal of the experiment was to find out whether people would obey higher authority even if what they were doing was morally wrong. There would be the experimenter who recorded the teacher's reactions and answered the teacher's questions. The student, an actually unimpaired actor, was supposedly shocked every time he gave a wrong answer, and every time he got it wrong he would be shocked with greater tension than the previous one. The teacher administered questions to the student along with the shock of the wrong answer. What the teacher thought he was doing was giving a painful, non-fatal shock to the student to verify that punishment leads to better memory. During the experiment very few actually went against authority, although all shocked the student at 300W and above. Over 50% was used for the entire amount of electricity. In fact, a prediction by another psychologist suggested that not even 1% of the subjects would follow through until the generator was last turned on. During the experiment, the teachers, the actual subjects, got nervous. The teachers began questioning the experimenter, who told them to move on and that he bore all responsibility for the teachers' actions. This convinced many teachers to continue to feel obligated to follow authority even if they knew they were doing something morally wrong. The teachers became very agitated, moved their hands, took out cigarettes, looked around, spoke quickly, etc., all signs of nervousness. Despite their nervousness and morality, they listened to the authority to continue long after the student did not respond.