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“Brand was then conveyed to Eichmann's office in the Hotel Majestic and ushered into his presence. Eichmann, resplendent in his SS uniform, stood in front of his desk and started barking at him: 'You… do you know who I am? I am in charge of the Aktion! In Europe, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria it has been completed, now it is Hungary's turn.”

Adolf Eichmann

David Cesarani, Becoming Eichmann: Rethinking the Life, Crimes, and Trial of a "Desk Murderer" (2006), p. 175. .

“When I arrived at the place of the execution, the gunmen fired into a pit the size of several rooms. They fired from small submachine guns. As I arrived, I saw a Jewish woman and a small child in her arms in the pit. I wanted to pull out the child, but then a bullet smashed the skull of the child. My driver wiped brain particles from my leather coat.”

Adolf Eichmann

CBC report (2000)

“Eichmann boasted about anything that seemed at all plausible to him: his genuinely close ties to the highest powers in Hungary; his somewhat indirect contact with the powers of the Third Reich; his access to everything from a "personal aircraft" to direct control of the gas chambers at Auschwitz. … He threatened his victims with the prospect that after the "final victory," Hitler would make him "World Commissar of the Jews."”

Adolf Eichmann

Eichmann Before Jerusalem by Bettina Stangneth (2015).

“I was never an anti-Semite. … My sensitive nature revolted at the sight of corpses and blood… I personally had nothing to do with this. My job was to observe and report on it.”

Adolf Eichmann

As quoted in Consensus and Controversy: Defending Pope Pius XII (2002) by Sister Margherita Marchione, p. 71.

“My heart was light and joyful in my work, because the decisions were not mine.”

Adolf Eichmann

At his trial, as quoted by Alan Rosenthal, "Eichmann, Revisited" in The Jerusalem Post (20 April 2011) http://m.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/Jewish-World/Eichmann-Revisited.

“To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.”

Adolf Eichmann

While awaiting trial in Israel, as quoted in LIFE magazine (5 December 1960).

“I was here, there and everywhere, you never knew when I was going to show up. I was a traveler…. I was able to creep into every territory of our corner of Europe.”

Adolf Eichmann

Argentina Audiotapes (1957)

“Nobody else was such a household name in Jewish political life at home and abroad in Europe as little old me.”

Adolf Eichmann

Argentina Audiotapes (1957)

“I was sent to Treblinka, Minsk, Lemberg and Auschwitz. When I see the images before my eyes, it all comes back to me … Corpses, corpses, corpses. Shot, gassed, decaying corpses. They seemed to pop out of the ground when a grave was opened. It was a delirium of blood. It was an inferno, a hell, and I felt I was going insane.”

Adolf Eichmann

Die Welt memoirs (1999)

“Eichmann… found all bureaucracy by definition tiresome. This was what staff were for. "These matters to do with bureaucracy," he explained to Sassen [in Argentina], "I just relied on my civil servants for them". He deployed these "living articles," like Ernst Moes and Fritz Wöhrn, as "bureaucratic brakes."”

Adolf Eichmann

Bettina Stangneth, Eichmann Before Jerusalem (2015).

“The men in my command had the kind of respect for me that prompted the Jews to effectively set me on a throne.”

Adolf Eichmann

Argentina Audiotapes (1957)

“I hope that all of you will follow me.”

Adolf Eichmann

Mumbled just before being hanged, according to Rafi Eitan, an Israeli intelligence officer who was standing behind Eichmann during the execution, as quoted in Mitch Ginsburg, "Eichmann's Final Barb" in The Times of Israel http://www.timesofisrael.com/eichmanns-final-barb-i-hope-that-all-of-you-will-follow-me/, December 2, 2014.

“I will simply not do penance.”

Adolf Eichmann

A text handwritten by Eichmann in 1956, as quoted in Eichmann Before Jerusalem by Bettina Stangneth (2015).

“Every department was trying to squeeze everything possible out of the Jews, to winkle it out by threatening them with the big bad Eichmann.”

Adolf Eichmann

Argentina Audiotapes (1957)

“It was my job to catch our Jewish enemies like fish in a net and transport them to their final destination.”

Adolf Eichmann

As quoted in The Nazi Hunters by Neal Bascomb (2013). ISBN 978-0-545-56239-3.

“Before my people bite the dust, the whole world should bite the dust, and then my people. But only then!”

Adolf Eichmann

Argentina Audiotapes (1957)

“They knew me wherever I went. Through the press, the name Eichmann had emerged as a symbol…. In any case, the word Jew … was irreversibly linked with the word Eichmann. Much more power … was attributed to me than I actually had.”

Adolf Eichmann

Argentina Audiotapes (1957)

“If we had fifty Eichmanns, we would have won the war.”

Adolf Eichmann

Heinrich Müller, about Adolf Eichmann's devotion. Quoted in "And the Crooked Shall be Made Straight" by Jacob Robinson - Jews (1965), page 37.

“He is responsible because of the conspiracy and the plots for all that happened to the Jewish people — from the shores of the Arctic Ocean to the Aegean Sea, from the Pyrenees to the Urals.”

Adolf Eichmann

Gideon Hausner as quoted in The New York Times (27 June 1961).

“And just as you supported and carried out a policy of not wanting to share the earth with the Jewish people and the people of a number of other nations - as though you and your superiors had any right to determine who should and who should not inhabit the world - we find that no one, that is, no member of the human race, can be expected to want to share the earth with you. This is the reason, and the only reason, you must hang.”

Adolf Eichmann

Hannah Arendt's "judgement" of Eichmann, in Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963).