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The Sassen Tapes: Eichmann’s Hidden Admission

In 1957, three years before his capture by the Mossad, Adolf Eichmann sat for a series of interviews in Buenos Aires with Willem Sassen, a Dutch journalist and former SS volunteer. These recordings, known as the Sassen Tapes, provide a chilling counter-narrative to the banality of evil defense Eichmann later used in Jerusalem. While he would eventually claim to be a mere clerk caught in a bureaucracy, these tapes capture him in a state of pride, openly discussing his hands-on role in the Holocaust.

In this specific exchange, Eichmann moves past the logistics of train schedules and admits to coordinating directly with death camp officials to ensure the efficiency of the genocide.

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Eichmann: Suppose, for example, that I needed to organize 50 trains in the next two months. I heard they had to go to Auschwitz. I received an order, for example, to get a certain city judenfrei—cleansed of jews. I asked Pohl to supply me with the final destination. That was my main task.

Then, in this instance, I went to Auschwitz. I told those in charge, "These are the orders I received from the Head Office." I had to know, "How many can you take in per day?"

Sassen: So you weren’t just responsible for the trains? But you always had to add that they were designated for Sonderbehandlung?

Eichmann: Yes. That’s an important point. I had to announce it. Naturally. You know, it was routine. It was always the same. Always the same.

The terminology used here reveals the calculated nature of their bureaucracy. Judenfrei (free of jews) was the goal of the deportations, while Sonderbehandlung (Special Treatment) served as the standard SS euphemism for mass murder.

Eichmann’s mention of Oswald Pohl—the head of the SS-WVHA which managed the camps—and his question regarding daily capacity ("How many can you take in per day?") are particularly significant. They prove he wasn't just following a schedule; he was actively managing the flow of victims to ensure the gas chambers at Auschwitz could keep up with the arrivals.

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Operation Finale, 2018. Director: Chris Weitz

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Holocaust survivor with newspaper headline of the arrest of Adolf Eichmann

(Paul Schutzer. 1960)

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The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together, for it implied as had been said at Nuremberg over and over again by the defendants and their counsels - that this new type of criminal, who is in actual fact hostis generis humani, commits his crimes under circumstances that make it well-nigh impossible for him to know or to feel that he is doing wrong.

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A report on the Banality of Evil - Hannah Arendt

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Art Requests PT.1

Hello everyone! Long time no see!

Here are 2 out of 12 art requests.

I know some of you have been waiting a long time and might have to wait a bit longer, but I have personal art projects and university exams going on.

Hopefully, within the next two weeks I’ll be able to post 5 more.

*All requests are randomized and not done in order.

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John Loftus (guard) Stanford Prison Experiment, August 1971

The ongoing Banality of Evil or as Dr Zimbardo put it:

"what happens when you put good people in bad situations?"

3. Stanford Prison Experiment, 1971

Stanford University psychologist Philip Zimbardo created the prison in an “attempt to understand just what it means psychologically to be a prisoner or a prison guard.

Within the first four days, three prisoners had become so traumatized that they were released. Over the course of the experiment, some of the guards became cruel and tyrannical, and a number of the prisoners became depressed and disoriented. However, only after an outside observer came upon the scene and registered shock did Zimbardo end the experiment, less than a week after it had started.

Others accused Zimbardo of encouraging the guards’ cruelty through his own actions. Zimbardo admitted that during the experiment he had sometimes felt more like a prison superintendent than a research psychologist.

2. The Experiment, 2002 (BBC series)

The most conspicuous challenge to the Stanford findings came decades later in the form of a BBC Prison Study

The BBC Experiment was led by psychologists Alex Haslam (University of Queensland) and Steve Reicher (University of St Andrews)

The findings of the study were very different from those of the Stanford Prison Experiment. Specifically, (a) there was no evidence of guards conforming "naturally" to the role, and (b) in response to manipulations that served to increase a sense of shared identity amongst the prisoners, over time, they demonstrated increased resistance to the guards' regime.

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1. Milgram experiment, Yale University, 1961

In the early 1960s, a series of social psychology experiments were conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, who intended to measure the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience.

The experiments unexpectedly found a very high proportion of subjects would fully obey the instructions, with every participant going up to 300 volts, and 65% going up to the full 450 volts...

The experiments began in August 1961 at Yale University, three months after the start of the trial of German Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, 1963 book by philosopher and political thinker Hannah Arendt

At the heart of the “Eichmann problem” are larger questions about the nature of wilful blindness, and the sources of compromise, complicity, and collaboration with forms of evil in complex bureaucratic societies... - the conversation

https://www.britannica.com/event/Stanford-Prison-Experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

https://theconversation.com/the-book-that-changed-me-hannah-arendts-eichmann-in-jerusalem-and-the-problem-of-terrifying-moral-complacency-187600