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Can one do evil without being evil? This was the puzzling question that the philosopher Hannah Arendt grappled with when she reported for The New Yorker in 1961 on the war crimes trial of Adolph Eichmann, the Nazi operative responsible for organising the transportation of millions of Jews and others to various concentration camps in support of the Nazi’s Final Solution.
Arendt found Eichmann an ordinary, rather bland, bureaucrat, who in her words, was ‘neither perverted nor sadistic’, but ‘terrifyingly normal’. He acted without any motive other than to diligently advance his career in the Nazi bureaucracy. Eichmann was not an amoral monster, she concluded in her study of the case, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963). Instead, he performed evil deeds without evil intentions, a fact connected to his ‘thoughtlessness’, a disengagement from the reality of his evil acts. Eichmann ‘never realised what he was doing’ due to an ‘inability… to think from the standpoint of somebody else’. Lacking this particular cognitive ability, he ‘commit[ted] crimes under circumstances that made it well-nigh impossible for him to know or to feel that he [was] doing wrong’.
Arendt dubbed these collective characteristics of Eichmann ‘the banality of evil’: he was no
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Adolf Eichmann
Otto Adolf Eichmann (19 March 1906 in Solingen – 31 May 1962 in Ramla) was an important SS officer in Nazi Germany.
Eichmann played a key role in planning the Holocaust[1] (which killed 6 million Jews and millions of others between 1941-1945[2][3][4]).
He was executed for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ramla, Israel on 1 June 1962, at the age of 56.[1]
Early life
[change | change source]On 19 March 1906 Eichmann was born in Solingen, Prussia, in the German Empire. Seven years later, his family moved to Linz in Austria-Hungary.
On 1 April 1932, he joined both the Austrian Nazi Party and the Austrian Branch of the National Socialist German Worker's Party (NSDAP).[5]
Two years later, he also joined the Schutzstaffel (SS), a Nazi paramilitary organization led by Heinrich Himmler and deputy head Reinhard Heydrich.
Career in the SS
[change | change source]Eichmann reached the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer (which was equal to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the German Army). He led the Jewish Department of the Reich Main Security Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt, Referat IV B4).
Senior Nazi officials, including Reinhard Heydrich, gave Eichmann the power to plan the