noun
Eichmann
noun
1
A person who carries out immoral or destructive orders without objection because society or their institution accepts them.
"The report called the mid-level official just another eichmann, following orders without question."
How to Use Eichmann
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishSomeone who does terrible things simply because they were told to, without moral resistance.
When to use it
A weighty, historically loaded term — used mainly in serious political or ethical writing, not casual speech.
Word Forms
Eichmanns plural
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Etymology
From Otto Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962), a key organizer of the Holocaust, whose trial made his name a byword for bureaucratic obedience to atrocity.