As far as Eichmann could see, no one protested, no one refused to cooperate. "Immerzu fahren hier die Leute zu ihrem eigenen Begräbnis" (Day in day out the people here leave for their own funeral), as a Jewish observer put it in Berlin in 1943.
(Eichmann in Jerusalem, 115p)
To a Jew this role of the Jewish leaders in the destruction their own people is undoubtedly the darkest chapter of the whole dark story.
(Eichmann in Jerusalem, 117p)
We need mention here only in passing the so-called "inner emigration" in Germany—those people who frequently had held positions, even high ones, in the Third Reichand who, after the end of the war, told themselves and the world at large that they had always been "inwardly opposed" to the regime.
(Eichmann in Jerusalem, 126p)
In Kant‘s philosophy, that source was practical reason; in Eichmann‘s household use of him, it was the will of the Führer. (Eichmann in Jerusalem, 137p)
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