18 Quotes by Adolf Eichmann

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

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.

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

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

Repentance is for little children.

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 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.

financed special research institutes investigating lethal gases and methods of execution.

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.