Hitler’s extermination program relied on statistically average, normal men

Evidence

The documents from the Hitler era contain numerous testimonials for the average normality of those entrusted with carrying out Hitler’s program of extermination. A good collection is found in Leon Poliakov’s “The Weapon of Antisemitism,” published by UNESCO in The Third Reich, London, 1955. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2842

Categorization

• XREF: Directly anticipates the banality-of-evil thesis and later psychohistorical debates about perpetrator normality relevant to the toolkit.