Meaning of Eichmann | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname from German.
2. One who willingly participates in immoral or destructive actions without ethical qualms because the actions are acceptable to society.

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Examples

“And the Nazi, in turn, tries to curry favor with the Mossadnik by asking him about his sister Fruma, executed in some frozen forest by the genocidal machine Eichmann had helped design.”

“Hence, no special moral or political perversion is required to produce an Eichmann; it might be said that there are thousands of potential Eichmanns.”

“Their arguments usually involve holding variants of the claim that the life of an Eichmann or a Stalin could not have been an integrated one...”

“One can imagine an Eichmann who was capable of questioning the meaning of this or that defense for his actions that he might give...”

“Does the notion of a scientific gaze and the impersonality of method allow for an Eichmann in the scientist in all of us?”

“"I've been accused of playing an Eichmann-like role in supporting an evil policy."”

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