Quoting from page 32 of Eichmann in Jerusalem, by Hannah
Arendt:
Before Eichmann entered the Party and the S.S., he had proved that he
was a joiner, and May 8, 1945, the official date of Germany's defeat,
was significant for him mainly because it dawned on him that
thenceforward he would have to live without being a member of something
or other. "I sensed that I would have to live a leaderless and
difficult individual life, I would receive no directives from anybody,
no orders and no commands would any longer be issued to me, no pertinent
ordinances would be there to consult - in brief a life never known
before lay before me."
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