1. Adolf Eichmann - Nazi Bureaucrat
Hannah Arendt thinks that Eichmann's trial was an excruciating lesson in the "banality of evil. " Banal is defined as lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring (Webster's Dictionary). ... He claims that he had "invented " the ghetto system when in reality it was the idea of Heydrich. ... However, with Eichmann boasting does make him evil because he was bragging about the deaths and ghetto's that he "caused " or "created ". ...
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- Grade Level: High School