At the Nuremberg trials, the political philosopher Hannah Arendt described the actions and the architects of the Holocaust with a simple, memorable phase–saying that the whole lot represented ‘the banality of evil.’ Her long ago words applied well to the man before us

At the Nuremberg trials, the political philosopher Hannah Arendt described the actions and the architects of the Holocaust with a simple, memorable phase–saying that the whole lot represented ‘the banality of evil.’ Her long ago words applied well to the man before us (Michael Morton, Getting Life: An Innocent Man’s 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace)