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

The Jews “desired” to emigrate and he, Eichmann, was there to help them, because it so happened that at the same time the Nazi authorities had expressed a desire to see their Reich judenrein. The two desires coincided, and he, Eichmann, could “do justice to both parties”.

“In March, 1938, [Eichmann] was sent to Vienna to organize a kind of emigration that had been utterly unknown in Germany, where up to the fall of 1938 the fiction was maintained that Jews if they so desired were permitted, but were not forced, to leave the country”.

From the introduction:

“The Nazis had succeeded in turning the legal order on its head, making the wrong and the malevolent the foundation of a new “righteousness”.”

That rings a bell.