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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 ...
(see also On Revolution) Full text on Internet Archive — (2006a) [1963, Viking Press, revised 1968]. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-101-00716-7. Full text: 1964 edition (see also Eichmann in Jerusalem) — (1968). Men in Dark Times. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Eichmann played a major part in the execution of the Holocaust. He fled to Argentina at the end of the Second World War, but was abducted by Israeli Mossad agents in 1960, and transported to Jerusalem to stand trial. [12] Eichmann was held at a fortified police station in Yagur in northern Israel for nine months prior to his trial. [13]
Arendt's five-part series "Eichmann in Jerusalem" appeared in The New Yorker in February 1963 [298] some nine months after Eichmann was hanged on 31 May 1962. By this time his trial was largely forgotten in the popular mind, superseded by intervening world events. [ 313 ]
Eichmann's trial before a special tribunal of the Jerusalem District Court began on 11 April 1961. [165] The legal basis of the charges against Eichmann was the 1950 Nazi and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law, [ 166 ] [ h ] under which he was indicted on 15 criminal charges, including crimes against humanity, war crimes, crimes against the ...
Adolf Eichmann on trial in Jerusalem (1961) "Little Eichmanns" is a term used to describe people whose actions, while on an individual scale may seem relatively harmless even to themselves, taken collectively create destructive and immoral systems in which they are actually complicit.
Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer (German: Eichmann vor Jerusalem – Das unbehelligte Leben eines Massenmörders) is a book by Bettina Stangneth originally published in German in 2011. An edition in English appeared in 2014.
The tapes were recycled on cost grounds after transcripts of the conversation were made. The complete transcripted text runs to about 700 pages. [5] [6] At Eichmann's Jerusalem trial the tapes and the full transcript were not considered admissible to the court – only 83 pages which Eichmann had annotated or corrected were allowed as evidence. [7]