Massini recites Eichmann about the Jews: “I exterminated you with gas, but nothing personal”…
Stefano Massini tells Adolf Eichmann: “I've never killed anyone. I just made it possible”.
“I will be sincere: against those like you I have nothing personal, never hate, never grudge. I have had classmates, even women, I got my first job thanks to one of you”.
Thus begins Stefano Massini's monologue in Piazzapulita, this time not his sack flour. In fact they are someone else's words, words that Massini reports in his new book 'Eichmann, where the night begins'. These are the words of Adolf Eichmann, the one who made the Holocaust possible, whose process was documented by Hannah Arendt in 'The Banality of Evil‘.
“I have made a career, I have spent my entire life making a career. Right, then the hiccup is that I had to take care of people like you. I entered the SS without even knowing what they were. I knew that Hitler in the square had great strength and that it always seemed that your shitty life could be redeemed by the strength of that man.
I was one of those. I joined the SS and I realized that if I wanted to make a career I had to take care of people like you. But nothing personal. When they told me it was decided to kill you all, I proposed an alternative plan, to send you all to Madagascar. But no, and I thought: the Reich machine is so big that if I don't take care of it, someone else will be there. And then: anyway, after all, I would never kill anyone, I'd just sign some papers, made trains leave. And so it was, I've never killed anyone. I just made it possible“.
