I was quoting Hannah Arendt, and I was also thinking of the documentary called Shoa, that contained an interview with a former official of the German railroad who explained that during the war there were civilian trains, military trains and then something called “special trains”.
When the interviewer pressed him on the content of the “special trains” the railroad official explained in the most dry and banal words imaginable that the SS had certain special transportation needs that had to be handled by special trains. It wasn’t that he didn’t know what was on those trains — who was on those trains — it was that his bureaucratic brain allowed him to “compartmentalize” it completely.
It was one of the most chilling interviews I’ve ever seen, precisely because the rat appeared quite “normal”.
Like the more recent rat Hashim Thaçi (KLA Leader in Kosovo) who was accused of organ harvesting from civilian Serb Prisoners held in Albania. He was accused in her book (The Hunt: Me and the War Criminals) but never tried by Carla Del Ponte who was the chief prosecutor in the trials of Serbs during the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague.
His picture was often seen with U.S. Ambassador Madeline Albright(kissing) and General "Weasley" Clark. (if you wish, I will find the pics again) Thaçi a Nato and U.S. ally??