In Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt advocated for strict liability for crimes against humanity. It sidestepped the thorny issue of intent. Strict liability made it difficult for those who benefitted from the regime to then disavow it later, as “so-called inner emigrants.”
“[Inner emigrants] were people who frequently had held positions, even high ones, in the Third Reich and who, after the end of the war, told themselves and the world at large that they had always been “inwardly opposed” to the regime.”
“The question here is not whether or not they are telling the truth; the point is, rather, that no secret in the secret-ridden atmosphere of the Hitler regime was better kept than such “inward opposition.””
“As a rather well-known “inner emigrant,” who certainly believed in his own sincerity, once told me, they had to appear “outwardly” even more like Nazis than ordinary Nazis did, in order to keep their secret.”
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