eichmann
Definition
- Proper noun:
- Adolf Eichmann: A high-ranking Austrian Nazi SS officer who was a principal organizer of the Holocaust, responsible for the logistics of mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps during World War II.
Usage
- Proper noun:
- The trial of Eichmann in Jerusalem was a landmark event.
- Historians study the role of Eichmann in the Final Solution.
Advanced Usage
- "the banality of evil": A phrase often associated with Hannah Arendt's reporting on the Eichmann trial, describing the phenomenon where ordinary people can commit atrocities through thoughtless obedience.
- Arendt's concept of "the banality of evil" emerged from her observations of Eichmann.
Variants and Related Words
- Eichmannesque (adj): Characteristic of or resembling Adolf Eichmann, especially in terms of bureaucratic complicity in evil.
- The clerk's Eichmannesque defense was that he was merely following orders.
Synonyms
- Nazi war criminal: A person who committed crimes against humanity while serving the Nazi regime.
- Architect of the Holocaust: A key planner and executor of the Nazi genocide against the Jews.
Related Phrases
- "Following orders": The defense often used by Eichmann and others at the Nuremberg trials, claiming they were not personally responsible as they were obeying superiors.
- Eichmann's claim of merely "following orders" was rejected by the court.
Related Idioms
- "A desk murderer": A term sometimes applied to Eichmann, describing someone who orchestrates killing from an administrative position without directly carrying out violence.
- Eichmann has been described as the archetypal desk murderer.
Noun
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Austrian who became the Nazi official who administered the concentration camps where millions of Jews were murdered during World War II (1906-1962)
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