Tim’s Reviews > Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil > Status Update

The Wannsee conference as it is known, was a meeting of undersecretaries of state for which the Final Solution was to be planned. It required more than just tacit acceptance of the Reich's state apparatus and needed the full cooperation of all the ministries and of the whole civil service if it was to apply to the whole of Europe

In light of the moral depravity of 20th century totalitarianism I find that evil is often done by the ' commonest, ordinary, unthinking and apathetic automatons '. There is a strong causal link between those who don't think and those that proceed to commit injustice against people.