Hannah Arendt's authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann includes further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account.
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landmark book in 20th century:
This book should be required reading for everyone concerned with the state of the modern soul. I agree with the reviewer who countermands the relativist notion that we are all potential Eichmann's. In fact, Arendt is one of the most forceful advocates for the call to moral responsibility that is our one effective resistance to tyranny and genocide.
Eichmann in Jerusalem:
The book offers a look into the trials of Eichmann in Israel. Arednt attempts to explain the banality of evil and how the German people did not react to the tragedies done to the thousands of victims; the evil done within Nazi Germany towards the Jewish people. This book is superb in its explanation and analysis of the role of Eichmann and others like him within the Nazi regime. Arendt does a great job of analyzing Eichmann's psychological condition and attempts to explain why Eichmann did not protest his... more info
Eichmann in Jerusalem is a harrowing journey to the lowest circle of Nazi/Holocaust Hell:
In 1960 the Israeli police illegaly abducted the Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann as he departed a city bus for his trek home. The ensuing trial riveted the world as no other juridical exercise had done since the Nuremburg trials of 1945-46.
In this short work which was originally a series of articles in the New Yorker magazine we see a great intellect at work thinking through the unthinkable overt murder of over six million innocent men, women and children who were slaughtered by Nazi butchers because... more info
A plea for clear thinking and honest speaking:
The story floating around in the zeitgeist about Eichmann in Jerusalem is that Hannah Arendt established how boring the Nazis were: that the men responsible for the destruction of millions were just paper pushers. This captures part of Arendt's book, but not nearly all of it. Overall, I think it's best to describe Eichmann in Jerusalem as a clear-eyed look at the trial of Adolf Eichmann, a study of guilt, and a dispassionate analysis of war-crimes trials. It's a tremendous book. Many Jews may stop... more info
