Power and evil…

Richard W. Sonnenfeldt, chief interpreter at the Nuremberg trials, was interviewed in his eighty-third year. His memories of the chief Nazis were still sharp. He remembered the terrifying normality of their personalities. “They were without a doubt the world’s greatest living criminals, but their hands were clean, their expressions were normal, they could have been people you meet on the street. You think, what kind of a man can do this, can serve someone like Hitler, and you realize, it’s very simple. A yes man. A toady. Someone doing it for rank or uniform or money or glory. . . . People have to realize that power and evil run on the same track.” Can we not see our own souls possibly at risk in such a situation?—Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion, 443 (emphasis original w/Rutledge)