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- Eichmann: ordinary bureaucrat, extremely normal
- Actions all based around advancing his career
- “Evil deeds without evil intentions”
- Banality of evil theory controversial – many believed that everyone in the Nazi genocide had to be evil in intention
- Counterpoint: Eichmann lacks ability to think, making him a monster
- Historian Bettina Stangneth saw Eichmann as strongly ideological Nazi
- Eichmann was committed to Nazi ideology and genocide
- https://aeon.co/ideas/what-did-hannah-arendt-really-mean-by-the-banality-of-evil
- Eichmann joined the Austrian Nazi Party and SS in 1932
- Nazi Party was banned in Austria in 1933, and Eichmann moved to Bavaria
- Joined Austrian Legion: organization for Austrian Nazis
- Eichmann started to work for the Security Service Main Office in 1934
- Watched Jewish organizations
- Deported 3,500 Jews during beginning of WWII
- Deported 1.5 million to concentration camps throughout the war
- Fled to Argentina w/ help of Catholic officials until 1960
- Taken to Israel for a trial
- https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/adolf-eichmann
