Επειδή πρόκειται για παράφραση, παραθέτω και το αυθεντικό κείμενο, στην αφετηρία του οποίου βρίσκονται τα εγκλήματα των ναζί:
The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together, for it implied — as had been said at Nuremberg over and over again by the defendants and their counsels — that this new type of criminal, who is in actual fact hostis generis humani.
Hannah Arendt, Epilogue.
Η λατινική έκφραση hostis humani generis σημαίνει εχθρός του ανθρώπινου γένους. Στην επικεφαλίδα το έργο του Ζουάν Μιρό, η γέννηση του κόσμου, 1925.