Then he asked Eichmann, “How did you come to do what you did?” “It was an order. I had a job to do.” “Just a job?” Malkin said incredulously. “Are you not a soldier? Don’t you have your orders? You captured me. Why did you do it? Because of an order.” “Yes, I got an order to capture you, but there’s a big difference between you and me. I had an order to catch a criminal. But you went after innocent people. They had done nothing wrong at all. You followed those orders because you hated these people.” “No . . . I, in a way, I love Jews.” Malkin could hardly believe what he was hearing. This was
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