“Whether they were bank directors or mental cases, the people who were loaded on those trains meant nothing to me.
It was really none of my business.”

— Adolf Eichmann

As quoted in Religion and Public Education (1967) by Nicholas Wolterstorf.

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“Whether they were bank directors or mental cases, the people who were loaded on those trains meant nothing to me.
It was really none of my business.”