I found something hugely unsettling about Neal Bascomb's chilling, authoritative and timely book about the capture of Adolf Eichmann, the man about whom the political philosopher Hannah Arendt ...

The Eichmann Trial Deborah E. Lipstadt Schoken Books, 272 pp., $23.95 Reviewed by Tom Mackin Adolf Eichmann, a high-ranking officer in Nazi Germany, sometimes called “the architect of the ...

In May 1960, Adolf Eichmann was kidnapped in Argentina by Mossad agents and spirited to Israel. The former SS Obersturmbannführer, who had been Heinrich Himmler’s chief adviser on “Jewish ...

Arendt coined the provocative expression in her book, Eichmann in Jerusalem, ... Adolf Eichmann awaits trial in Israel, 1961. Gjon Mili—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images.

This rebroadcast originally aired on July 15, 2022. Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. In 1961, Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, was tried in Israel. Writer Hannah Arendt ...

Part 1 of Hannah Arendt’s 1963 report on the “banality of evil” and the trial of the former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann for his role in ... He even read one more book, Adolf Böhm’s ...

Having kidnapped Eichmann from Buenos Aires, the Israelis now in charge of the murderer’s care feel obliged to adhere to an ethical rule book that runs counter to the moral violations he represents.

He had to wait until 2022 — during the Biden presidency — to workshop a piece based on Arendt’s book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.

This rebroadcast originally aired on July 15, 2022. Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. In 1961, Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, was tried in Israel. Writer Hannah Arendt ...

Having kidnapped Eichmann from Buenos Aires, the Israelis now in charge of the murderer’s care feel obliged to adhere to an ethical rule book that runs counter to the moral violations he represents.