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Hannah Arendt was born Johanna Arendt [16] [17] in 1906, in the Wilhelmine period. Her secular and educated Jewish family lived comfortably in Linden , Prussia (now a part of Hanover ). They were merchants of Russian extraction from Königsberg .
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil is a 1963 book by the philosopher and political thinker Hannah Arendt. Arendt, a Jew who fled Germany during Adolf Hitler's rise to power, reported on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust, for The New Yorker. A revised and enlarged edition was published ...
Hannah Arendt, who reported on Eichmann's trial for The New Yorker, published Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1963, a book sometimes falsely credited with being the source of the term "desk murderer". In this book she described him and his associates as the "modern, state-employed mass murderers" and talks of the "bureaucracy of murder".
Political philosopher Hannah Arendt reported on the trial in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. The book had enormous impact in popular culture, but its ideas have become increasingly controversial. Eichmann was charged with fifteen counts of violating the Nazis and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law. [7]
The use of "Eichmann" as an archetype stems from Hannah Arendt's notion of the "banality of evil". [1] According to Arendt in her 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem , Eichmann relied on propaganda rather than thinking for himself, and carried out Nazi goals mostly to advance his career, appearing at his trial to have an ordinary and common ...
Hannah Arendt is a 2012 biographical drama film directed by Margarethe von Trotta and starring Barbara Sukowa. An international co-production from Germany, Luxembourg and France, the film centers on the life of German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt . [ 3 ]
The use of "Eichmann" as an archetype stems from Hannah Arendt's notion of the "banality of evil". [224] Arendt, a political theorist who reported on Eichmann's trial for The New Yorker , described Eichmann in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem as the embodiment of the "banality of evil", as she thought he appeared to have an ordinary personality ...
Hannah Arendt Center for Political Studies (2018). Video and Audio recordings (in German, English, and French). University of Verona. Archived from the original on 14 September 2018; Lozowick, Yaacov (5 Apr 2011). Hannah Arendt, Adolf Eichmann, and how Evil Isn't Banal. The Holocaust Resource Center (video). Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust ...