Had I turned into a soulless person, a wicked man, a murderer? I went on plying my conscience with questions. Had I done anything in the war but my duty and my obligations? Had I done anything but remain loyal to my oath and obedient to my orders? And my conscience answered me reassuringly. No, nothing else. Had I killed defenseless people, or ordered them to be killed? No, no, no. What in the devil’s name did they want of me? Extract from the memoirs of Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Final Solution, published in The People newspaper, 1961
