“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.

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