Also, being an anti-semite does not make one an unusual person, especially if we're talking about the central European culture of the mid 20th century, where th

Also, being an anti-semite does not make one an unusual person, especially if we're talking about the central European culture of the mid 20th century, where this idea was extremely common even among many otherwise ordinary people. Eichmann may have been fanatically hateful towards jews, but this was for one thing far from uncommon and secondly, far from something that would have probably led him to participating in their systematic extermination had the Nazi regime not come into existence with all that it did.