Little Eichmanns

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Adolf Eichmann on trial in Jerusalem (1961)

"Little Eichmanns" is a term used to describe people whose actions, while on an individual scale may seem relatively harmless even to themselves, taken collectively create destructive and immoral systems in which they are actually

Holocaust, but claimed that he did so without feeling anything about his actions, merely following the orders given to him
.

The use of "Eichmann" as an archetype stems from

psychopathic and fundamentally different from ordinary people.[1][2][3]

The idea that Eichmann – or, indeed, the majority of Nazis or of those working in such regimes – actually fit this concept has been criticized by those who contend that Eichmann and the majority of Nazis were in fact deeply

anti-Semitic, with Eichmann in particular having been fixated on and obsessed with the Jews from a young age.[4] German political scientist Clemens Heni goes so far as to say the phrase "belittles the Holocaust".[5]

Barbara Mann wrote that the term was perhaps best known for its use by

technocrats working at the World Trade Center:[16]

If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it.

See also

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.5840/socphiltoday201573023
    . Retrieved June 23, 2018.
  2. ^ Arendt, Hannah (1977). Eichmann in Jerusalem. New York: Penguin Books.
  3. Özkırımlı, Umut (October 31, 2017). "On the Banality of Evil and 'Little Eichmanns'". Ahval
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  5. ^ Heni, Clemens (Fall 2008). "Secondary Anti-Semitism:From Hard-core to Soft-core Denial of the Shoah". Jewish Political Studies Review. 20 (3/4): 82.
  6. ^ Mann, Barbara Alice (February 26, 2017). "And Then They Build Monuments to You". In Churchill, Ward (ed.). Wielding Words Like Weapons: Selected Essays in Indigenism, 1995–2005. PM Press.
  7. ISBN 978-0-922915-75-0. Archived from the original
    on 2009-03-18.
  8. ^ Dornberg, John (1961). Schizophrenic Germany. MacMillan. p. 52.
  9. OCLC 61133213
    . Retrieved August 5, 2015.
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  11. ^ Reid, T.R. (February 5, 2005). "Professor Under Fire For 9/11 Comments: Free Speech Furor Roils Over Remarks". Washington Post.
  12. ^ Churchill, Ward (February 1, 2005). "Ward Churchill Statement". Daily Camera. Archived from the original on 1 June 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  13. ISBN 978-1902593791
    .
  14. S2CID 145409384
    . Churchill was made notorious for views he expressed on 9/11 about the culpability of Americans, including the victims of the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, whom he labeled 'little Eichmanns' rather than innocent civilians. When this provocative label was brought into focus three years later, in the superheated context of a coordinated and persistent national assault on academic freedom by the politically ascendant right, it prompted a rebuke of Churchill in a formal resolution passed by the Colorado House of Representatives and a call by the state's governor for Churchill to resign his position as professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado. The attack on Churchill motivated in turn a university investigation that concluded Churchill was operating within his right of free speech but should be investigated further for related charges of plagiarism and misrepresentation of his Native-American ethnicity.
  15. S2CID 141233099
    .
  16. ^ Churchill, Ward (September 2001). "'Some People Push Back': On the Justice of Roosting Chickens". Pockets of Resistance. 20. Archived from the original on 2018-04-16. Retrieved August 5, 2015.

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