little Eichmann
English
editEtymology
editNamed after Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann.
Noun
editlittle Eichmann (plural little Eichmanns)
- (slang, derogatory) Someone who is like the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann; someone who seems ordinary but does evil as a member of an immoral or evil entity or system.
- 2018, Paul M. Cole, POW/MIA Accounting: Volume I – Searching for America’s Missing Servicemen in the Soviet Union, Springer, →ISBN, page 843:
- Russian journalist Andrei Zhukov's work in Soviet archives produced a list of over 40,000 little Eichmanns who acted as willing, if not enthusiastic, executioners.
See also
editFurther reading
edit- Little Eichmanns on Wikipedia.Wikipedia