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If Eichmann was a fanatic, and I know he was...


...you might have expected him to try and sell his cause during the trial, given that there were several hundred million people watching him at the time.

Instead he just whined and said it was all done by people other than him.

So on top of everything else, I suppose he was a coward.

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Every bigot I've ever run across was a total coward. I think it's a prerequisite.

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Well said!

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That's one of those things that people think sounds wise, but doesn't hold up to rational consideration. Thousands of men from the Confederate States of America, the Third Reich, and the Empire of Japan bravely risked their lives and often died defending ideologies that were bigoted, and that they fervently believed in. By our standards, they were all bigots, but they were not cowards. Today such simplistic thinking is even less valid than ever, because by the reckoning of many, mostly on the far left, it is almost impossible not to be a bigot.

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There is not really any doubt that he oversaw the program to deport Jews to death camps. So either he thought that they should be killed, and didn't have the courage to say so in open court, or he didn't think they should be killed and took the job to send them to their deaths anyway.

I don't really see how the second possibility makes him look any better than the first.

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