Adolf Eichmann

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

“Long live Germany. Long live Argentina. Long live Austria. I had to obey the rules of war and my flag. I am ready.”

“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.”

“To be frank with you, had we killed all of them, the 10.3 million, I would be happy and say, 'Good, we have destroyed an enemy.'”

“I was not a 'person in charge,' and I was never a leader. I did what I was told.”

“My guilt is my obedience.”

“I was only a small cog in the machinery of the Führer's Third Reich.”

“Repentance is for little children.”

“I am not the monster I am made out to be. I am the victim of a fallacy.”

“I never killed a Jew, or a non-Jew, for that matter. I never killed any human being.”

“Whether they were building the Pyramids or the Great Wall of China, there were also people who died. But the main thing is that it was built.”

“The organization of the transport was my main activity.”