The Guilty Of Eichmann's The Banality Of Evil

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The best argument for Arendt is her subtitle of the book, “the Banality of Evil”, which is also found in the epilogue. The condition of being banal is to lack originality which Arendt believed Eichmann possessed since she considered him to be an extremely average person who controlled, to a certain extent, the power to transport Jews to their deaths. Motivated simply by professional career promotion, it is hard to believe that Eichmann was normal and ordinary especially since he stated that “… the death of five million Jews on my conscience gives me extraordinary satisfaction” . Eichmann claims his duties were law-abiding but to Arendt, Eichmann willingly and intentionally did his part to organize the Holocaust, not out of anti-Semitism, but

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