That is precisely what Eichmann wanted: to be hanged in public & to enjoy his own execution so that he could believe to immortal & the equal of god. At the foot of the gibbet, he defieshis judges, telling them ‘we shall meet again’ & forgot that it was his own funeral: ‘It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness has taught him - the lesson of the fearsome, word-&-thought defying banality of evil’ (Arendt).
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