Following orders

The case of Adolph Eichmann shows how ordinary people can commit extraordinary crimes. At his trial in Jerusalem in 1961, this hi-level architect of the holocaust claimed he was only performing 'Acts of State,' that he had abandoned his conscience to serve the Fuhrer. The Jewish journalist Hannah Arendt covered the trial for her newspaper, and noted that Eichmann seemed devoid of any anti-semitism, hatred, guilt, or any serious psychological damage. He was just a soldier who was doing his duty. This led to her theory of the 'Banality of Evil'-