In 1942, German reserve police officers obeyed orders from their superiors to kill some 1500 Jews in the village of Jozefow, Poland.
This incident illustrated that people are most likely to be destructively obedient when:

A. they fail to recognize their actions are morally wrong.
B. their victims are distant and personalized.
C. they perceive their orders to come from legitimate authority figures.
D. they derive personal satisfaction from destructive acts.