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Believed that Jews assimilating into society meant Jews had to assimilate into Anti-semitism Believes evil is the absence of good, and can never be grandiose in the way that goodness can https://www.csmonitor.com/1982/0602/060201.html In Origins of Totalitarianism Arendt discusses the “grotesque disparity between cause and effect [of totalitarianism]” Arendt talks about alienation and the rift that dispossession and disenfranchisement create The mob mentality created by resentment and fear can result in acts of evil that are felt by no particular person in the mob https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/12/17/how-hannah-arendts-classic-work/ Eichmann was hanged following the trial in Jerusalem Was a traveling salesman before becoming a Nazi Was just doing a job as a part of a bureaucracy Claimed his innocence and lack of evil feelings during his trial. Said he was not anti-semitic or particularly interested in violence. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adolf-Eichmann
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