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To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.
My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as the nationalist ones.
Over the years I learned which hooks to use to catch which fish.
Audiotape recording of Eichmann in Argentina (1957)
Regret is something for little children.
I am certain, however, that those responsible for the murder of millions of Germans will never be brought to justice.
Die Welt memoirs (1999)
My heart was light and joyful in my work, because the decisions were not mine.
I witnessed the gruesome workings of the machinery of death; gear meshed with gear, like clockwork. It was the biggest and most enormous dance of death of all times.
CBC report (2000)
After the speech he looked at us ironically and added softly: "Otherwise you would die". The words were icy but the tone like velvet, almost friendly.
It was actually an achievement that was never matched before or since.
In Hungary in 1944, Eichmann introduced himself this way: "Do you know who I am? I am a bloodhound!"
Eichmann Before Jerusalem by Bettina Stangneth (2015)
Nobody else was such a household name in Jewish political life at home and abroad in Europe as little old me.
Argentina Audiotapes (1957)
Every department was trying to squeeze everything possible out of the Jews, to winkle it out by threatening them with the big bad Eichmann.
Argentina Audiotapes (1957)
Obeying an order was the most important thing to me. It could be that is in the nature of the German.
Die Welt memoirs (1999)
I was never an anti-Semite. … I personally had nothing to do with this. My job was to observe and report on it.
It was my job to catch our Jewish enemies like fish in a net and transport them to their final destination.
The Nazi Hunters by Neal Bascomb (2013)
I have them completely in hand here, they dare not take a step without first consulting me.
Letter to Herbert Hagen about the Jewish community in Vienna (1938)
I have to forge my weapons according to the strength of the resistance.
Argentina Audiotapes (1957)
Before my people bite the dust, the whole world should bite the dust, and then my people. But only then!
Argentina Audiotapes (1957)
I hope that all of you will follow me.
I knew that in this 'promised land' of South America I had a few good friends, to whom I could say openly, freely and proudly that I am Adolf Eichmann, former SS Obersturmbannführer.