Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

by Hannah Arendt

By this he did not mean to say that he regretted anything : “Repentance is for little children.” (Sic!)

“not guilty in the sense of the indictment.”

learned counsel for the defense probably did

was anything to remember. (Dr. Servatius could have called as witnesses

of

Raul Hilberg in his The Destruction of the European Jews

In Amsterdam as in Warsaw, in Berlin as in Budapest, Jewish officials could be trusted to compile the lists of persons and of their property, to secure money from the deportees to defray the expenses of their deportation and extermination, to keep track of vacated apartments, to supply police forces to help seize Jews and get them on trains, until, as a last gesture, they handed over the assets of the Jewish community

in good order for final confiscation. They distributed the Yellow Star badges,

Obersturmbannführer,

testimony stressed horseback riding was never mentioned: the Nuremberg Tribunal

in