Eichmann’s position, therefore, showed a most unpleasant resemblance to that of the often-cited soldier who, acting in a normal legal framework, refuses to carry out orders that run counter to his ordinary experience of lawfulness and hence can be recognized by him as criminal.
In other words, when his superiors started scaling back the mass murder of Jews toward the end of the war, he refused to do so because he recognized their subversion of German law as a criminal act. This man did not hate Jews, he was simply a part of the bureaucracy of mass murder, a paper-pusher who dealt in transportation, a man on the conveyor line trying to keep things going even when others tried to sabotage what law and duty required.
