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sir pball

(4,762 posts) Fri Dec 29, 2017, 01:53 AM Dec 2017

I [did not originate the orders], and as such do not feel myself guilty.

Paraphrased to fit in the title.

Full quote:

“There is a need to draw a line between the leaders responsible and the people like me forced to serve as mere instruments in the hands of the leaders,” Eichmann’s letter pleaded. “I was not a responsible leader, and as such do not feel myself guilty.

The excuse given by, IMO, the most actively evil man in recent history - HITLER SAID TO AND I ACTUALLY DID IT BUT IT'S NOT MY FAULT.

BTW Eichmann was younger than I am...he was only thirty-five at Wannsee.

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