ABSTRACT
Evil is also destructive to life as a moral and social enterprise: it defines the difference between good and bad, virtue and vice, sinful, right and wrong, legal and criminal, and, last but not least, healthy or sick. Remembering the evil of the Mongols and the Turks, both genocidal, is either just history or a veiled warning about the gathering storm in Germany. The renowned Jewish–German–American cultural, political, and social philosopher, Hannah Arendt, made many outstanding contributions to political theory. Arendt invoked Immanuel Kant's idea of radical evil in her 1966 discussion of the Nazi concentration camps and the Soviet forced-labour camps. Arendt was right about Kastner: in exchange for money, gold, and diamonds, he struck a deal with Eichmann to save his chosen privileged Jews while sacrificing the rest by failing to warn them that their so-called "resettlement" was a deportation to the gas chambers.
