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u/erondites · 41 pointsr/DepthHub

If anyone is interested in more on this subject, I highly recommend Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt. Framed as an account of Adolph Eichmann's 1961 trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Jerusalem, the book really digs into how great evil is often brought about by banal motives like careerism and stupidity.

u/sektabox · 19 pointsr/europe
u/ddesjard · 10 pointsr/HistoryPorn

OP, I think you mean Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt.
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143039881/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_bGJGAbJ6XYEXC

u/Ezterhazy · 8 pointsr/AskHistorians

The capture of Adolf Eichmann is a covert operation that I find interesting and Hannah Arendt's book Eichmann In Jerusalem about his trial in Israel is fascinating from both a historical and philosophical perspective.

u/papivebipi · 8 pointsr/worldnews

Lolek Skosowski, a Jew, a Gestapo agent, who in 1943 gave the Germans death to over 2,000 survivors so far during the so-called Polish Hotel scandal


there were also other Jewish voluntary organisations that were willing participants of Holocaust like the most famous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BBagiew which was operating by infiltrating Jewish and Polish resistance movements, giving away the Polish groups hiding the Jews etc - making it significantly harder to operate since they never could be sure if the next Jewish person to hide is not the one that will give all the others away, etc.



and other like:

  • Chaim Rumkowski

  • Erhard Milch

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judenrat

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Ghetto_Police



  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_13

  • "Eichmann in Jerusalem" by Hannah Arendt.

    Obviously, these examples being true doesn't mean Jewish involvement being significant, just like in case of the Poles there was a strict minority of people willing to collaborate voluntarily (e.g. Żagiew, Group 13, early Judenrats) and those forced to collaborate (late Judenrats, Sonderkommandos) - but that's exactly the whole point of Morawiecki's comparison.

    >a form of holocaust denial

    what? if anything you are the one doing so by denying that some invdividuals did engage voluntarily in the massacre of their brothers.

    and regardless words have meaning trying to dilute a word to suit your own agenda is not ok. Holocaust denial has a definition and saying that someone participated in the holocaust is not denial by any logical sense, saying someone did not, like you just did, is.
u/bayesianqueer · 6 pointsr/medicine

I'm not shocked. Some people relish hurting others, but a much larger number will go along when there is immense social pressure and a cognitive dissonance defense that they can use to internally justify their actions. The military and the CIA engineer that social pressure and provide those defenses so that people who would never think they would even be capable of committing atrocities actually do. It's what Hannah Arendt referred to as the banality of evil. One of the points Arendt makes in Eichmann in Jerusalem is that he did not see himself as "just following orders" but that he was doing his duty as well as obeying the law. He did not see himself as abdicating his role as an active and even moral agent, but that he was carrying out the edicts of Hitler (and thus society) under a seriously fucked up interpretation of Kant's Categorical Imperative.

The health care providers who do this believe they are serving a higher purpose. They are actively helped to create justifications by the people who need their skills to commit torture. Think about it this way: Say I convinced you that if you tortured Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (the architect of 9/11) you could get him to give a grain of information that would prevent the deaths of 1 million people in whatever country you live in. Just imagine that you really believed this. Would you do it? Would you feel justified in doing so?

That is the reason that health care providers participated in torture.

Now we know that torture doesn't work and hasn't prevented much if any deaths, so we find it easy to condemn these people. (And I agree they should be condemned). However it's like the joke where the man asks a woman if she would have sex with him for $10 million. She says yes, then he asks if she would do it for $10. She replies with "No! What do you think I am?" The man replies, "well, we've established what you are, now we're just haggling over price."

edit: wurds

u/OracularLettuce · 5 pointsr/politics

Or Border Control is full of incompetents as a result of new and previous hiring pushes.

Earlier this year a story broke that one of the child detention centers was employing someone who had previously been arrested for child porn. It was widely pointed out at the time that this is what you get when you expand an organisation like this without a real barrier to entry, and do so quickly.

The reason is simple. Most people don't want to put "ran a child concentration camp" on their résumé. The people you attract are, frankly, not their best. You end up hiring people who are okay with the scandals, and that means people who are more malicious and less interested in providing a valuable public service.

The more scandals the agency is embroiled in, the fewer non-shitty applicants you'll see. Who wants to work for an organisation which is famous for losing track of children by the thousand, with the widely reported fear that the children were later picked up by sex traffickers? Who wants to work for an organisation which actively attempts to prevent journalists from reporting on the conditions in the concentration camps? Who wants to work for an organisation which cages children and employs pedophiles to do it? Who wants to work for an organisation which lost a thousand children again?

As the PR situation worsens, the applicant pool worsens too. As the percentage of employees who are terrible increases, the quality of service declines. Declining service begets scandals and bad PR, and the cycle repeats.

You end up building an environment which encourages, at best, laziness. At worst it creates a self sustaining misery generator where the goal is to inflict pain.

u/Tokenwhitemale · 4 pointsr/pics

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http://www.amazon.com/Eichmann-Jerusalem-Banality-Penguin-Classics/dp/0143039881/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310132848&sr=8-1

Actually, we do comprehend evil of this sort very well. It's alot easier to describe the Nazi's and their atrocities as an incomprehensible evil than for us to recognize that it's something that even the best of us are capable of given the right environment.

u/TheElderGodsSmile · 4 pointsr/europe

Mate, you need to buy and read Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt and learn about the concept of the banality of evil.

Perfectly normal and sane human beings are quite capable of doing truly horrific things. In fact that makes them far more dangerous than lunatics because the truly insane by definition lack the power to be truly destructive.

u/ziggyTsarBust · 3 pointsr/politics

Read Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.

Standard conservative nationalism and xenophobia can easily transform into violent extremism.

u/cgalv · 2 pointsr/worldnews

If you have not read it, may I recommend Eichmann in Jerusalem, by Hannah Arendt. On the one hand, it's an interesting story of the last major trial resulting from Nazi atrocities. Additionally, it's a thought-provoking treatise on the ubiquity of evil.

u/President2032 · 2 pointsr/RandomKindness

This book! http://www.amazon.com/Eichmann-Jerusalem-Banality-Penguin-Classics/dp/0143039881/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321518551&sr=8-1
I'm a freshman in college and had to use the money I had saved for a speeding ticket, so now I'm broke. :c

u/FponkDamn · 2 pointsr/Libertarian
u/Blainesapain · 2 pointsr/books

You may be interested in Eichmann in Jerusalem: A report on the banality of evil by Hannah Arendt. Arendt uses Eichmann (considered by some to be one of the cruelest men in the Third Reich) to show the Holocaust was brought on by complacency more than evil intent.
http://www.amazon.com/Eichmann-Jerusalem-Banality-Penguin-Classics/dp/0143039881

You may also like The Nazi and the Psychiatrist. I haven't read this one, but it seems pretty cool.

http://www.amazon.ca/The-Nazi-Psychiatrist-Hermann-Douglas/dp/161039156X

u/stitch-e · 1 pointr/suggestmeabook

I really liked Man's Search for Meaning. I found it directly after reading Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jeruselem. You might try it out. They're not the same exactly, but I found Arendt's writing style similar to Frankl's. It was direct, immediately accessible, and philosophic.

u/[deleted] · 1 pointr/books

Try reading Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Something in a similar vein might be Philip Gourevitch We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families. Both of those are books that were written while reporting for the New Yorker - Arendt reflects extensively on the ethical/moral lapses which permitted the atrocities to occur - the seeming "accidental" nature of it. Gourevitch reports on the sociological and political history of the area and the global lack of balls in intervening in Rwanda. They're tough books to read, but really good.

There's also Frantz Fanon, who wrote specifically about colonialism and ethnic identity; his oeuvre is more in defense of revolution - and the fight or resistance against invasive/oppressive cultures. He presents kind of a defense of violence in the right circumstances. His works have been influential for organizations like the Black Panthers, Malcom X and Che Guevara.

Ed: And, if you're ever just in too good of a mood and need to depress yourself, go get a good eyeball full of the effects of ethnic violence in the modern world in James Nachtwey's book Inferno.