So far as the form of state went, Hitler based everything on *Fuhrerprinzip"
the principle of leadership. This visualized the concentration of power in
the hands of a leader, unlimited by any kind of constitution or
parliamentary (congressional) control, and with the authority to direct the
state to give priority to foreign policy and rearmament, including the
conquest of new living space (oil) in the East.
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives
by Alan Bullock
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The sanity of (Adolf) Eichman is disturbing. We equate sanity with a sense
of justice, with humaneness, with prudence, with the capicity to love and
understand other people. We rely on the sane people of the world to preserve
it from barbarism, madness, destruction. And now it begins to dawn on us
that it is precisely the *sane* ones who are the most dangerous.
Raids on the Unspeakable
Thomas Merton
He was found guilty on all counts, sentenced to death and hanged at Ramleh
Prison, May 31, 1962.
A fellow Nazi reported Eichmann once said "he would leap laughing into the
grave because the feeling that he had five million people on his conscience
would be for him a source of extraordinary satisfaction."
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/biographies/eichmann.htm
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