Arendt privately revised the ‘banality of evil’ thesis she is famous for.

Evidence

Thus, while her phrase “banality of evil” has sometimes been adopted to describe the es­ sential nature of Nazi destructiveness, it would seem that Arendt herself had second thoughts about this. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 648

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to arguments that bureaucratic-obedience framings understate perpetrator agency and zeal.