desk murderer

noun

desk murderer

noun

Etymology Used by Gideon Hausner to describe Adolf Eichmann, but often attributed to Hannah Arendt.

1

A bureaucrat, etc. who indirectly assists in genocide or other killing by performing clerical tasks.

Related terms
little Eichmann

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