Eichmann

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who willingly participates in immoral or destructive actions without ethical qualms because the actions are acceptable to society.

    "Hence, no special moral or political perversion is required to produce an Eichmann; it might be said that there are thousands of potential Eichmanns."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German.

    "And the Nazi, in turn, tries to curry favor with the Mossadnik by asking him about his sister Fruma, executed in some frozen forest by the genocidal machine Eichmann had helped design."

Example

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"Adolf Eichmann hated rules and was contemptuous of bureaucracy."

Etymology

Borrowed from German Eichmann. (noun): After Otto Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962), the architect of the Holocaust.

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