Top 12 Quotes by Adolf Eichmann

I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.

I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.

Adolf Eichmann

Laughing, Leader, Feelings

"Adolf Eichmann, the Evil Architect of the Holocaust in WW2" by Nikola Budanovic, www.warhistoryonline.com. August 22, 2016.

To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.

Adolf Eichmann

Regret, War, Evil

Life magazine, December 05, 1960.

Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.

Adolf Eichmann

Thinking, Liberty, Needs

"Why? New Eichmann Notes Try to Explain" by Roger Cohen, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 1999.

I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.

Adolf Eichmann

Horse, Wagons, Drivers

"'I Was Never an Anti-Semite'". articles.latimes.com. March 01, 2000.

From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.

Adolf Eichmann

Order, Childhood, Age

"Why? New Eichmann Notes Try to Explain" by Roger Cohen, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 1999.

Adolf Hitler may have been wrong all down the line, but one thing is beyond dispute: the man was able to work his way up from lance corporal in the German Army to Führer of a people of almost 80 million. His success alone proved that I should subordinate myself to this man.

Adolf Eichmann

Army, Men, People

"The Eichmann Memoir" by James Noxon, The Personalist, Cover image Volume 42, Issue 3, onlinelibrary.wiley.com. July 1961.

Repentance is for little children.

Adolf Eichmann

Children, Littles, Repentance

Your time will come to follow me Jew

Adolf Eichmann

Follow Me, Jew

I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors.

Adolf Eichmann

Instruction, Obtaining, Superiors

I am certain, however, that those responsible for the murder of millions of Germans will never be brought to justice.

Adolf Eichmann

Justice, Murder, Responsible

"Why? New Eichmann Notes Try to Explain" by Roger Cohen, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 1999.

Long live Germany. Long live Austria. Long live Argentina. These are the countries with which I have been most closely associated and I shall not forget them. I had to obey the rules of war and my flag. I am ready.

Adolf Eichmann

Country, War, Long

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.