The concentration camp guard’s speech is self-contradictory regardless of its content

Evidence

The speech of the concentration camp guard is actually a terrible illogicality, no matter what its content is; unless, of course, it condemns the speaker’s own duties. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 532

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to Arendt’s Eichmann analysis of bureaucratic speech and to the rhetoric-of-genocide literature.