Hannah Arendt in studying the bureaucrat Eichmann and the holocoust
Eichmann and the holocaust penguin, 2005
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Quote:the trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many [ bureaucrats] where like him and that many neither perverted nor sadistic that they were and still are terribly and terrifyingly normal
this new type of criminal [the bureaucrat] who iss in actual fact hostic
s generis humani commits his crimes under circumstances that make it well nigh impossible for him to know or feel that he is doing wrong
in it judgment the court naturally conceded that such a crime could be committed only by a great bureaucracy using the resources of government but in so far as it remains a crime -and that of course is the premise of the trail all the cogs in the machinery are [bureaucracy] are in court forwith transformed into perpetrators
these bureaucrats wiling did their duty knowing what was happening WHY because it was their duty and not to upset their carrerr path
Are bureaucrats the hidden cancer in society to break out when the state turns fascist
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