“Now he could see with his own eyes and hear with his own ears that not only Hitler, not only Heydrich nor the ‘sphinx’ Müller, not just the S.S. or the Party, but the elite of the good old Civil Service were vying and fighting with each other for the honor of taking the lead in these ‘bloody’ matters. ‘At that moment, I sensed a kind of Pontius Pilate feeling, for I felt free of all guilt’. Who was he to judge? Who was he ‘to have his own thoughts in this matter?” Well, he was neither the first nor the last to be ruined by modesty.” – Hannah Arendt (quoting and speaking of Adolf Eichmann)
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