Today, 15th December, in 1961 the trial of Adolf Eichmann began. From 1942 he had organised transport to maximise the number of people being taken to the Nazi death camps. The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal (Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem)
Posted on: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 20:33:00 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015