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Nothing Was Banal About Eichmann’s Evil, Says a Scathing New Biography

True Villainy

Bettina Stangneth argues that Hannah Arendt got it all wrong when she argued that Adolf Eichmann epitomized the ‘banality of evil.’ He knew exactly what he was doing.

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