Little Eichmanns

"Little Eichmanns" is a term used to describe people whose actions, while on an individual scale may seem relatively harmless even to themselves, taken collectively create destructive and immoral systems in which they are actually complicit.

The name comes from Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi bureaucrat who helped to orchestrate the Holocaust, but claimed that he did so without feeling anything about his actions, merely following the orders given to him.

She suggested that this most strikingly discredits the idea that the Nazi war criminals were manifestly psychopathic and fundamentally different from ordinary people.

[14][15] In the essay, Churchill used the phrase to describe technocrats working at the World Trade Center:[16] If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it.On the Harry Potter book series, the character of Dolores Umbridge has been compared to a Little Eichmann.

Umbridge is portrayed as a power-hungry bureaucrat of the Ministry of Magic, introduced on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as taking part on the cover-up of the return of Lord Voldemort and as the authoritarian High Inquisitor of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, taking over the school's management of behalf of the Ministry.