Eichmann’s mass-murder participation was careerist, not hate-driven.

Evidence

The point to remember is that for every villain of Goldhagen’s book, for every German and non-German who killed his victims with pleasure and enthusiasm, there were dozens and hundreds of Germans and non-Germans who contributed to the mass murder no less effectively without feeling either way about their victims and about the nature of the actions involved. And the point is that, while we know quite well that prejudice threatens humanity, and we even know a little about how to fight and constrain the ill-intentions of the people tainted with prejudice, we know next to nothing about how to stave off the threat of a murder which masquerades as a routine and unemotional function of orderly society. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 693 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Milgram’s obedience theory locates harsh action in situational authority pressure, not internal hatred. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 602; Mass murder is accomplished mostly by indifferent functionaries, not sadists — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 693; Ordinary bureaucratic indifference, not hatred, enabled mass murder (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Ordinary bureaucratic indifference, not hatred, enabled mass murder #corroborates (0.95)
• Mass murder is accomplished mostly by indifferent functionaries, not sadists #exemplifies (0.92) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 693
• Mass murder does not require extreme, demonic emotions in its perpetrators #corroborates (0.85)