Luís’s Reviews > Eichmann and the Holocaust > Status Update

(...) And just as you supported and carried out a policy of not wanting to share the earth with the Jewish people and the people of a number of other nations - (...) - we find that no one, that is, no member of the human race, can be expected to want to share the earth with you. This is the reason, and the only reason, you must hang.'

It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us - the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.

(...) There are more than a few people, especially among the cultural élite, who still publicly regret the fact that Germany sent Einstein packing, without realizing that it was a much greater crime to kill little Hans Cohn from around the corner, even though he was no genius.

(...) Goerdeler stated them again and again in numerous memoranda: 'the re-establishment of the national borders of 1914 (...), with the addition of Austria and the Sudetenland'; furthermore, a 'leading position for Germany on the Continent' and perhaps the regaining of South Tyrol!

(...) No communication was possible with him, not because he lied, but because he was surrounded by the most reliable of all safeguards against the words and the presence of others, and hence against reality as such.