“I have them completely in hand here, they dare not take a step without first consulting me.”

—  Adolf Eichmann

Letter to Herbert Hagen about the Jewish community in Vienna (1938), as quoted in Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Bettina Stangneth (2015).

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