‘We stand perplexed and stupefied before the phenomenon of Nazism, because we know

nothing about man, or at any rate have only a lopsided and distorted picture of him. We
stand face to face with the terrible question of evil and do not even know that is before
us, let alone what to pit against it. And even if we did know, we still could not understand
how it could happen here’ (C.G.Jung)

Adolph Eichmann
An Archetype of Evil or just a case of Blind Obedience?

By Nestor Almada, Dip Mayo S Astrol. (UK), Cert. Vedic Astrol. AIVS (USA)

In his book ‘The Murderers Among Us’
Simon Wiesenthal wrote ‘I saw Adolph
Eichmann for the first time on the
opening day of his trial in the courtroom
in Jerusalem. For nearly sixteen years I
had thought on him practically every
day and every night. In my mind I had
built up the image of a demonic
superman. Instead I saw a frail,
nondescript, shabby fellow in a glass
cell. Everything about Eichmann seemed
drawn with charcoal: his grayish face,
his balding head, his clothes, There was
nothing demoniac about him: he looked
like a timid bookkeeper’
Markus Wolf, a former head of the East
German foreign intelligence service, at
the Nuremberg Trials, made similar
observation ‘ There, before my eyes
were the people who had been found
responsible for terrible things, They
were the greatest leaders of the Nazi
regime who were still alive. I have seen
their photographs, in all their former
pomp and glory. In Nuremberg, I saw
normal, simple people sitting in the
dock. They seemed like staff in a railway
station or in a post office’
characteristics. Cripples and hunchbacks
were often distrusted. Some medieval
laws regarded ugly and deformed people
more likely to be guilty of crimes.
During the eighteenth and nineteenth
century, some eminent neurologists
considered that skulls and brains of
criminals showed unmistakable
peculiarities. In Italy, a well-known
criminologist named Lombroso
suggested that criminals were born and
not made. And that they could be
distinguishing from non-criminals by
certain stigmata, i.e.: excessive hairiness,
heavy jaws, high cheekbones, and large
drooping ears. Other experts suggested
that ‘muscular’ types of individuals were
more likely to be criminals.
Adolph Eichmann did not seem to fit
any of those physical characteristics. He
was not a ‘muscular type’. Neither he
resembled any of the sketches in the Dr
Cesare Lombroso’s books. He looked
more like a bureaucrat than a demon.
Adolph Eichmann was born in Solingen,
Rhineland (7oE05, 51W10) on March
19th 1906, at 8h15’ (Data and Chart from
Astrodienst).

Do criminals need to look like demons? Gemini rising, Sun in Pisces does no
There is an old myth that associates indicate a demoniac appearance but
criminality with particular physical rather of a retiring and bookish-looking

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type. However, Moon in Capricorn
without harmonious aspects from other
planets can provide the clue of
Eichmann ruthless mind and intellect.
Kroiz suggested that with this aspect, the
Luna vibrations for evil are the
strongest. He added ‘the qualities that
go to make up a social human being,
happily adjusted to life, are completely
absent’. Wiesenthal correctly observed
‘Eichmann’s great strength was the he
treated the Jewish problem
unemotionally. He was the most
dangerous man of all- the man with no
human feeling’.
Wiesenthal found everything
incompressible about Eichmann. He
could not explain why he became what
he was. He found nothing. Eichmann
came from a family with religious
background and his father was a member
of the Presbyterian Church. Benedikt
Schwager, head of the Jewish
community, awarded his father with a
high Austrian decoration.
Apparently Wiesenthal observations
were not objective enough. He could not
believe that a man who had a sound
religious upbringing could be an anti-
Semite and commit such atrocities as
Eichmann did. In fact the opposite
appears to be the truth.
Anti-Semitism in Germany was not a
Hitler’s invention. It existed not only in
Germany but in other European
countries as well. Hate against Jews
appears to be of a religious origin.
Martin Luther, founder of Protestantism
was not only an anti-Semite bigot, but he
believed in '‘absolute obedience to
political authority'’ (1). This could have
influence the ‘cultural values’ of Nazi
Philosophy.
Luther wanted all Jews out of Germany
to be deprived of ‘all their cash and
jewels and silver and gold’. And that is
what the Nazis did. Luther also wanted
‘that their synagogues or schools be set
on fire, that their houses be broken up
and destroyed, that the Jews be put
under a roof or stable, like the gypsies,
in misery and captivity. The Nazis did
this as well.
Jews were also unwanted in other
countries. Pope Benedict XIV wanted all
Jews out of Polish cities. In His
Encyclical, Benedict XIV wrote:
Another threat to Christians has been
the influence of Jewish faithlessness.
This influence was strong because
Christians and Jews were living in the
same cities and towns. The Jews have so
replaced the Christians that some
parishes are about to lose their
ministers because their revenues have
dwindled so drastically’. He added,
Jews are cruel taskmasters. By means of
their particular practice of commerce,
they amass a great store of money and
they by an exorbitant rate of interest
utterly destroy the wealth and
inheritance of Christians’. In another
paragraph, Benedict wrote ‘ we promise
you that when the situation arises, we
will cooperate energetically and
effectively with those whose combined
authority and power are appropriate to
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remove this stain of shame from
Poland’. Thus, the ghettoization of the
Jews was an ancient Christian agenda.
St Bernard wrote to the clergy of Eastern
France: ‘Jews are eminent remainders
for us of the Lord’s suffering. On this
account they are scattered through all
lands in order that they may witnesses to
our redemption while they pay the just
penalties for so great crime’ (Epistle
363)
Peter, abbot of Cluny send a letter to
Louis, King of France and advised him
to punish their excesses and to strip
them of the property they had taken from
Christians or had acquired by usury’
Under Alexander III heavy penalties
were imposed to Christians working as
domestics servants for Jews. ‘Let them
not continually devote themselves to the
service of Jews for a wage’, Advised
Alexander.
Allport argue that ‘while the creeds of
the great religions are universalistic, all
stressing brotherhood, the practice of
these creeds is often divisive and brutal.
Even more, religion is in fact a focus of
prejudice, because it usually stands for
more than faith. Religion is the pivot of
the culture. Perhaps that is why the
clergy justify ethnic prejudices with
religious sanctions.
According to Jung, religion has an
enormous influence on the entire life of
the society. This is because ‘ all official
religious doctrines actually belong to the
collective consciousness of the race’.
For Eichmann the gods were the
fatherland and the NAZI party. ‘I served
the gods my whole being and faith.
There was nothing I wouldn’t do for
them’, he wrote.
Jung, in his book ‘The Psychology of
Nazism’ argue the German Psyche was
possessed by an archetype called Wotan,
the god of storm and frenzy, the
unleasher of passions and the lust of
battle’. The Nazi party was, according to
Jung, a reflection of the unfathomable
depth of Wotan’s character. This could
be Jung’s explanation. ’The gods are
without doubt personifications of
psychic forces. As an autonomous
psychic factor, Wotan produces effects in
the collective life of a people and
thereby reveals his own nature’. But
Germans did not receive messages of
moral and religious law. Germans
decided to submit their personal
autonomies to their Fuhrer. ‘It has
always been terrible to fall into the
hands of a living god’, added Jung.
Hermann Hesse, deeply concerned with
the authoritarian enculturation of
Germany, wrote ‘You Germans more
than any other people are accustomed to
obedience. Your people have obeyed so
easily, so very willingly and gladly,
reluctant to take the slightest step that
did not afford the satisfaction of
carrying out an order or complying with
a regulation. You are the most pious
people in the world. But what gods your
piety has created! Kaisers and drill
sergeants!’
The Founders of the Nazi party were
anti-Semites and anti-Semitism was part
of the Nazi agenda. Eichmann was an
anti-Semite because he was a Nazi (2).
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Hitler’s racist ideologies involved two
plans. The Lebensraum (Living Space)
was a long-term process of racial
consolidation in the newly annexed
territories. The Endlosung (Final
Solution) was the elimination of all
European Jews. It was meant to expel
them to the extremities of the German
sphere of influence. Jews were to be
deported first to Lublin and later to
Madagascar.
Madagascar was the solutions dreamed
by the anti-Semites. It was considered
the ideal dumping ground for all
European Jews. Apart from France,
Great Britain also needed to be defeated;
otherwise, the Madagascar plan could
not be implemented.
The demographic planners were
increasingly frustrated by the difficulty
encounter with such a massive
population transfer. England was not
defeated and in Europe, nobody wanted
to accept the expelled Jews.
Browning (p 30) argue that
‘Ghettoization of the Jews was not a
conscious preparatory step planned by
Hitler to facilitate the mass murder.
Neither did it have the set task of
decimating the Jewish population. In
Fact, Ghettoization was carried out at
different times in different ways for
different reasons on the initiative of local
authorities’.
Aly & Heim (quoted in Browning)
suggested that ‘the Nazi technocrats
decided that East European Jews were
not only part of the superfluous
population. Jews were also considered
an obstacle to modernization. Most of
them were poor and were monopolizing
the pre-industrial handicraft sector. Jews,
the Nazis believed were preventing a
rationalization of industrial production
and at the same time, they were blocking
the movement of non-Jewish population
from the countryside into the cities.
The Nazi technocrats arrived to the
conclusion that a removal of the Jews
and confiscation of their property could
solve a number of problems
simultaneously.
The expulsion policy failure created a
human bottleneck. The sealing of the
Ghettos resulted in a catastrophe of
enormous proportions. According to
Hilberg (1985), over half million of
Polish Jews died in the Ghettos due to
epidemic and starvation.
Between September 1939 and the
summer of 1941, the planning German
intelligentsia suggested the ‘Final
Solution’ for reasons that appeared
logical to them. This ‘solution’ was
gradually developed from the lower
planning levels and proposed to the
upper levels of the Nazi bureaucrat’s (3).
Hitler approved the ‘Final Solution’ in
October 1941. He was confident that the
victory in Russia was likely to be before
winter.
Browning (p 60), wrote that ‘Holocaust
was not a mystical event beyond human
understanding, but one that resulted from
the rational means employed by German
technocrats to get rid of a superfluous
population’
But why all those Nazis were
transformed from bureaucrats into mass
murderers? One of the reasons,
according to Browning (p56) was
personal ambition. ‘They had joined the
party and had taken positions and made
careers dealing with the ghettoized
Jews. When the mass murder began, the
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perpetrators of the Final Solution would
carry out their task with the same
ingenuity and inventiveness that ghetto
managers had previously employed to
maintain ghetto life under great
constraint’
Eichmann’s birth charts suggest that he
was a career minded and a very
ambitious man. This is indicated by the
Moon in Capricorn closed to the Mid
Heaven. Most planets are above the
horizon. Neptune, the ruler of his Sun
sign is in the second house. Pisces, his
Sun sign rule all matters related to the
XII house. This house rules deportations
and all places of detention such as
prisons, concentration camps and
ghettos.
After studying books about Psychology
of crime, about what type of early
experiences may turn a child into a
criminal and having found no
explanation. Wiesenthal wrote: ‘I had
made a mistake: I though of Eichmann
as an ordinary criminal, which he was
not. In his case the problem of early
childhood and environment that usually
lead to crime simply didn’t exist’
Wiesenthal observed that ‘Eichmann
emerged as the top executive of the
annihilation machinery’. Like Hitler,
Eichmann was born with the Moon in
Capricorn, but without harmonious
aspect to it. Kroitz wrote ’ Should the
Capricorn person turn to criminal,
especially the Luna Capricorn, he
becomes the toughest, most vicious
criminal imaginable. Luna Capricorn
has been called in Astrology ‘The Figure
of the Devil’ this suggests a
temperament that can plot with complete
coldness, and execute premeditated
crimes that are carried out with care
and exactitude of high enterprise’.
Frawley suggested that an ill-placed and
malefic Moon is often found in the chart
of criminals and of those suffering
mental disorders.
Eichmann’s Mercury squares with
Uranus in Capricorn, and according to
Carter, this is a contact of intolerance.
He suggested that this aspect ‘It is
sometimes a criminal influence,
apparently sufficing to turn the whole
tenor of an otherwise not particular evil
map into the wrong direction’. It was
therefore understandable that Eichmann
was found to be the ‘most suitable man’
to do the job. This is a case were ‘normal
psychology’ can not be applied
successfully. Eichmann is a case of a
‘potentially evil mind’ influenced by a
‘pathological environment’. Jung
suggested that in such environment,
collective evil forces could overwhelm
individual Psychology. ‘The change of
character brought about the up-rush of
collective forces is amazing, a gentle
and reasonable being can be
transformed into a maniac or a savage
beast’, Jung wrote.
Eichmann was a ‘XII House man’.
Moon in Capricorn mission found its
‘niche’ in all activities ruled by this
house.
The XII house is the hose of the ‘hidden
enemies’. Eichmann joined the NSDAP
(NAZI party) when this was considered
an illegal organization in Austria.
Mercury, the ruler of the Ascendant is in
the XII house. Eichmann used his
natural intellectual curiosity in this area.
He was assigned to gather information
about the ‘Freemasons conspiracy and
set up an index of prominent Jews who
were also Freemasons.
After becoming a learned expert in
Freemasons, Eichmann developed and
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impressive knowledge about Zionism
and Jews en general. He learned Hebrew
and become a Gestapo observer at
Jewish meetings. He become a ‘leading
expert on Jewish Affairs’
Apparently Eichmann was personally
initiated into the new policy of mass
murder. Direction of this policy was
given at the center, and instruction was
sent. The killing machine was set in
motion.
One of the negative characteristics of a
Moon in Capricorn person is what Jones
describe as ‘Justification of Self, which
reacts with high opportunism to every
chance for becoming necessary in some
given situation’.
Eichmann in his memoirs was not only
remorseless but unable to admit his own
guilt as well. Eichmann wrote: ‘I saw
how, by a few words, through a single,
abrupt order of one individual, whom
the regime empowered, field of
annihilation was created’.
Sun in Pisces indicates ‘the need to be
submitted to a stronger will’. It also
indicates the tendency to play the role of
a victim. Eichmann, in his writing,
considered of being himself a ‘victim of
the circumstances’. He wrote, ‘Because
I saw hell, death and the devil. Because
I had to witness the insanity of
annihilation. Because I was reined in as
one of the many horses and could not
break out either to the right or the left
because of the will of the coachman and
his orders…’
Eichmann’s XII House is heavily
tenanted. Jupiter is in this House.
Mercury, his ruler sign and Venus, the
significator of the second house are also
in this house. The cusp of the XII house
is in Aries and Mars, its ruler, is also the
XII. Eichmann made a large fortune
trading in human freedom.
Being regarded as an ‘expert’ in Jewish
issues, Eichmann was appointed by
Heydrich (also born with the Sun in
Pisces), to handle the Office for Jewish
Emigration’. This was the only agency
authorized to issue permits to Jews
wishing to leave the Country. Nearly
half of Vienna’s 180,000 Jews managed
to purchase their freedom to emigrate by
handling everything they owned. Allport
correctly argued that ‘outright greed is
certainly a cause of prejudice.
Rationalization of greed is a principal
source of prejudice. The formula is
simple enough: Greed leads to grabbing
and this leads to justification.
But was Eichmann born an ‘evil man’?
Wiesenthal found no rational
explanation why an ordinary person like
Adolph Eichmann, could become the
greatest mass murderer of the XX
Century. So far astrology is concerned,
Eichmann was born with an ‘evil’ lunar
position. But was this astrological aspect
enough to made an evil out of him?
Ancient astrologers believed that Gods
and Demos are within our own Psyche.
They are represented by the planetary
energies of our own chart. The highest
energies of the planets represent the
Devas or Gods of the mind and intellect.
On the lowest level, they become the
Asuras or Demons. These are powers of
falsehood that work through illusion,
cruelty, deception, arrogance and
negativity.
Jung called these negative elements of
our Psyche ‘the Shadow’. This entire
negative and destructive characteristic
remains unknown to us. This is because;
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we denied them expression in life for
being incompatible with our chosen
conscious attitude. Due to constrain
imposed to us by society, we are unable
to express and become conscious of our
inferior traits. In ‘psychotics times’ like
in the case of Nazi Germany, The Nazis
removed all legal protection from the
Jews. Criminal behavior was encouraged
and rewarded. The moral restrain from
religious authorities was non-existent.
The silence of the churches was
considered a tacit approval of the abuses
committed against such unfortunate
minorities.
. during the century before Hitler.
Jung suggested ‘ It was a mistake to
regard Psyche as a purely personal affair
and to explain it exclusively from a
personal point of view. Such a mode of
explanation is only applicable to the
individual in his ordinary everyday
occupations and relationships. If
however, he added, some trouble occurs,
perhaps in the form of and unforeseen
and somewhat unusual event, instantly
instinctual forces are called up, forces
which appear to be wholly unexpected,
new and strange. They can not longer be
explained in terms of personal motives’.
Collective forces are powerful in such
circumstances. The worst of human
nature can be awakened and the
‘shadow’ expresses its destructive and
evil nature.
. the German mind’ (Shirer)
Philosopher Paul Carus suggested that
evil is a very real phenomenon, but it is
not a thing, with physical properties of
its own. Evil can be expressed through
human actions. But evil it is not an entity
with a will of its own. Evil is a process
in which we humans more or less
inevitably participate.
Hitler was echoing the evil of the
German mind. But how the collective
German Psychology came to be? The
evils of the glorification of war and of
the absolute power of the authoritarian
state; the misguided belief in the racial
superiority of Germans, the hatred
against Jews, the contempt for
democracy were not the creation of
Hitler's mind alone. Those evils were the
refection of many sick and unbalanced
minds of scholars, religious leaders,
philosophers, historians and teachers,
Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote “If only
there were people somewhere,
insidiously committing evil deeds, and it
were necessary only to separate them
from the rest of us and destroy them. But
the line dividing good and evil cuts
through the heart of every human being.
And who is willing to destroy a piece of
his own heart?”
Notes:
(1) Since the peace of Westphalia in
1648, ‘Acceptance of autocracy and
blind obedience to petty tyrants who
ruled as princes become ingrained in
(2) Anti-Semitic points of the NAZI
Party program promulgated on
February 24, 1920, in a Munich beer
hall stated ‘the Jews were to be
denied office and even citizenship in
Germany and excluded from the
press. All who had entered the Reich
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 after august 1914, were to be
expelled’ (Shirer 1978, P41)
(3) According to Heim and Aly, the
planning intelligentsia (Planende
Intelligenz) were several obscure
agencies such as Reichskuratorium
fur Wirtschaftlichkeit, Institut fur
Deutsche Ostarbeit, Reichsstelle fur
Raumordnung, Reichskommissariat
fur die Festigung des Deutschen
Volkstums and Abteilung
Bevolkerungswesen und Fursorge.
(Browning, P60)

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Copyright Nestor Almada (2006)

Nestor Almada was born in Cordoba, Argentina. He studied astrology with the Mayo
School of Astrology (UK), Vedic Astrology and Ayurveda with Dr David Frawley,
founder of the America Institute of Vedic Studies and Homeopathy and Biochemistry
with the Grace Medical Mission (India).
Other Studies: University of New England, Dip in Modern Languages (Italian).
Macquire University, Crt in Lang. (French.).
University of Melbourne, Grad Dip in Information and Communication Technology Ed.
Hawthorn Institute of Education, Grad Dip in Education.
Universidad Tecnologica Nacional (Argentina), Degree in Engineering (Electronics).
Worked as an engineer in Europe and South Africa and as a teacher and Linguist in
Australia.
Presently studying Psychology at Monash University