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hlthe2b

(102,379 posts)
Mon Jan 11, 2021, 12:58 PM Jan 2021

A chilling comment/reminder from the trial of Adolph Eichman:


“I was reminded of Hannah Arendt describing the trial of Adolf Eichmann. ‘The trouble,’ she wrote, ‘was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal.’”



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A chilling comment/reminder from the trial of Adolph Eichman: (Original Post) hlthe2b Jan 2021 OP
I believe it was Arendt who coined the phrase thucythucy Jan 2021 #1
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