Eichmann's Banality

It is ironic that Eichmann is considered so normal when he can't even carry on a conversation properly.  I found it interesting that Arendt couldn't take his completely serious due to the extent of his reliance on political jargon and cliches of the time.  It seems clear that anyone could be reduced to this state having undergone the changes of the Nazi regime, but I am surprised Arendt didn't discuss how in particular, Eichmann was not able to articulate events correctly.  She discussed his skewed memory, but I think that he may have been more impacted than the average German by the unification under Hitler.  He was not so easily pulled back into post-war mentality as the rest of Germany was.  He seemed to be stuck in his wartime identity.  He may no longer be the head of transporting Jews to their deaths, but he didn't seem to be recovered necessarily either (at least by Arendt's accounts).  I think it goes beyond simply being swayed by authority either way due to a lack of thinking, but there was something more, at least in Eichmann, that kept him from reverting back to "everyday life".  He obviously tried to defend himself in his trial, but like Heidegger  he never was actually "sorry" about what HE did.  He may have been sorry about what happened, but he never took responsibility.  Even if others in the Nazi state 'let things happen' they probably would have seen the atrocities and taken some sort of responsibility.  I just see Eichmann as beyond just a 'non-thinker' and was actually 'stuck' with the Nazi party as his authority even after the war.