"All "small screws" in court turn into criminals — i.e. into people"

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On December 15, 1961 to the death penalty in Jerusalem court over Eykhman Adolf — the high-ranking official who was responsible for actuating of "a final decision of a Jewish problem" to nazi Germany ended with a sentence. Process was watched by the philosopher Hannah Arendt, written about it a series of articles for the magazine Weekly "The New Yorker" and later processed them in the book "Banality is evil: Eykhman Adolf in Jerusalem" in which tried to answer a question who bears responsibility for the genocide untied by nazi Germany and as officials turn into criminals. Re-read the book and chose...