Atrocities Quote by Hannah Arendt

[About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had…

— Hannah Arendt

When we think of a criminal, we imagine someone with criminal motives. And when we look at Eichmann, he doesn't actually have any criminal…

— Hannah Arendt

Even Eichmann was sickened when he toured the concentration camps.

— Stanley Milgram

“The Jewish historian Hannah Arendt, in her book about the trial of Nazi administrator Adolf Eichmann, observes that in many cases the Nazi camps…

— Victoria Finlay

...a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe…

— Noam Chomsky

“Adolf Eichmann went to the gallows with great dignity. He had asked for a bottle of red wine and had drunk half of it.…

— Hannah Arendt

None of my 'clients' - not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler or Stalin - was born a criminal. Somebody had…

— Simon Wiesenthal

None of the participants ever arrived at a clear understanding of the actual horror of Auschwitz, which is of a different nature from all…

— Anonymous

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

— Thomas Mann

The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities of that…

— Charles Kennedy

Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as…

— Edward Abbey

To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization.

— Robert Shapiro