desk murderer
Meanings
noun
- A bureaucrat, etc. who indirectly assists in genocide or other killing by performing clerical tasks.
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Etymology
Used by Gideon Hausner to describe Adolf Eichmann, but often attributed to Hannah Arendt.
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