"After the speech he looked at us ironically and added softly: "Otherwise you would die". The words were icy but the tone like velvet, almost friendly."
— Adolf Eichmann

January 1, 1970

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Benjamin Murmelstein, Theresienstadt: Eichmanns Vorzeige-Ghetto, , as quoted in Eichmann's Jews: The Jewish Administration of Holocaust Vienna, 1938-1945 by Doron Rabinovici (2014), .