“Philosopher Hannah Arendt coined the infamous phrase, the “banality of evil,” to describe her observation of Adolf Eichmann during his trial in Jerusalem in 1961. She observed how ordinary Eichmann appeared, how disturbingly normal. A bureaucratic instrument in the killing of six million Jews, Eichmann was indeed evil, but he performed his part banally — like part of a machinery operating routinely. Killing was a strategy. There was no emotion. Read More
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