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

"The whole truth was that if the Jewish people had really been unorganized and leaderless, there would have been chaos and plenty of misery but the total number of victims would hardly have been between four and a half and six million people."

"I have dwelt on in this chapter of the story, which the Jerusalem trial failed to put before the eyes of the world in its true dimensions, because it offers the most striking insight into the totality of the moral collapse the Nazis caused in respectable European society - not only in Germany, but in almost all countries, not only among the persecutors but also among the victims."