Career ambition, not hatred, drove Eichmann’s participation in genocide.

Evidence

Report on the Banality of Evil (Arendt, 1963), she claimed that Eichmann was a very conventional person, guided largely by a drive to advance his career rather than by hate for his victims. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 609

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to Hannah Arendt’s banality-of-evil thesis, a canonical anchor for the reader’s scapegoating/perpetrator literature. — connects to: Eichmann’s mass-murder participation was careerist, not hate-driven.; Administrative detachment, not personal hatred, produces modern genocide. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 446

Broader Connections