What remains of ''the Banality of Evil'?

Re-examines Hannah Arendt's ''banality of evil' dictum and finds little validity in Arendt's labelling of uniformed perpetrators as thoughtless, but instead stresses their self-awareness as well as their conviction of rightness. Describes the wartime behaviour of the principal executives of Germany's largest corporation as they became implicated in the abuse of slave labour and in some cases, in the Holocaust