Mick Hartley

…who was hanged shortly after the war in the trial of Belsen.

Eichmann’s defence in his trial was that he was merely a cog in the Nazi machine – just following orders. In her 1963 book “Eichmann in Jerusalem” Arendt, seeing this unprepossessing man in the dock, swallowed Eichmann’s line completely – hence her phrase “the banality of evil”. In fact, as we now know, Eichmann was a fanatical Nazi, who later expressed regret that more Jews hadn’t been killed. Fortunately the Israelis weren’t as gullible as Arendt, and hanged the bastard.