By Bertil Lintner

The Irrawaddy-Dec 13, 2022

When Adolf Eichmann was put on trial in Jerusalem in 1961, few could imagine that he was responsible for sending millions of Jews to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Instead of a monstruous butcher, Eichmann looked like a meek civil servant who, as he said, had only been doing his job — or “no more than a simple pencil pusher” — as someone in the audience remarked at the time. But Eichmann was indeed a monster. He was sentenced to death for a series of crimes, among them crimes against humanity, and hanged on June 1, 1962. Read more at: https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/myanmars-generals-the-banality-of-evil.html First published in The Irrawaddy