Eichmann

1. A surname from German.

   And the Nazi, in turn, tries to curry favor with the Mossadnik by asking him about his sister Fruma, executed in some frozen forest by the genocidal machine Eichmann had helped design.

   2018 August 22, Liel Leibovitz, “Eichmann in Full”, in Tablet

plural Eichmanns

1. One who willingly participates in immoral or destructive actions without ethical qualms because the actions are acceptable to society.

   "I've been accused of playing an Eichmann-like role in supporting an evil policy."

   2005, Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, The worlds of Herman Kahn: the intuitive science of thermonuclear war

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   Hence, no special moral or political perversion is required to produce an Eichmann; it might be said that there are thousands of potential Eichmanns.

   1968, William Phillips, A sense of the present

   Their arguments usually involve holding variants of the claim that the life of an Eichmann or a Stalin could not have been an integrated one...

   1992, Ian Shapiro, Political Criticism

   One can imagine an Eichmann who was capable of questioning the meaning of this or that defense for his actions that he might give...

   1996, Lenore Langsdorf, Stephen H Watson, E Marya Bower, Phenomenology, interpretation, and community

   Does the notion of a scientific gaze and the impersonality of method allow for an Eichmann in the scientist in all of us?

   2004, Alan P. Lightman, Daniel R Sarewitz, Christina Desser, Living with the Genie: essays on technology and the quest for human mastery