Why do ordinary people become murderers? The Banality of Evil: From Auschwitz to Mariupol, Bucha, Izyum...
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"He is sitting in his cage like a ghost, who also has a cold, but he is not at all scary," Hannah Arendt described the German war criminal Adolf Eichmann during his trial.
Hannah Arendt was one of the first to talk about the true nature of evil and comprehensively studied this phenomenon, which, in her opinion, is not always hidden in a person's desire to do something terrible, but is much more often associated with the rejection of thought and personal responsibility for one's own choices.
The Auschwitz death camp has become an undeniable symbol of the Nazi crimes in World War II.
It is the story of how some people (including educated and seemingly mentally healthy people) killed other people on a scale and systematic basis that had never been seen before.
"Auschwitz has already come to us..." - this is what thousands of Ukrainians who survived the Russian occupation in Mariupol, Bucha, Izyum can say...
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