little Eichmann

English

Etymology

Named after Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann, who claimed his acts during the Holocaust was just following superior orders.

Noun

little Eichmann (plural little Eichmanns)

  1. (slang, derogatory) Someone who is like the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann; someone who seems ordinary but does evil as a member of an immoral or evil entity or system.
    • 2018, Paul M. Cole, POW/MIA Accounting: Volume I – Searching for America’s Missing Servicemen in the Soviet Union, Springer, →ISBN, page 843:
      Russian journalist Andrei Zhukov's work in Soviet archives produced a list of over 40,000 little Eichmanns who acted as willing, if not enthusiastic, executioners.

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