New documentary airing June 27 in the US on PBS explores how the Jewish writer and activist brought lessons from WWII Germany ...

Encore Tuesday, July 1, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. Discover Hannah Arendt, one of the most ...

Pankaj Mishra explores, through the Holocaust to the context of colonialism and imperialism, how Israel’s impunity came to be, finds Lindsey German The conflict in Gaza over the past eighteen months ...

The film adaptation of Forsyth’s 1972 novel led to the exposure of Eduard Roschmann, the ‘Butcher of Riga’, in the depths of ...

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 the Holocaust.

Adolf Eichmann was tied at the wrists, knees and ankles and stood on a trapdoor, as instructed. He still wore his brown plaid slippers. A thick rope was knotted round his neck.

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.

The story of the 1961 trial and 1962 execution of Nazi Adolf Eichmann has been told extensively, from Hannah Arendt’s contemporaneous book “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of ...

After she attended his trial in Jerusalem, Hanna Arendt described the former SS officer Adolf Eichmann as “terrifyingly normal” — even banal. But in rendering this judgement, she failed to ...

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 ...

In her book on Eichmann, Arendt’s attention moved from the early 1930s to the end of the war, and country by country, across Europe, to nations including Hungary.

In her book on Eichmann, Arendt's attention moved from the early 1930s to the end of the war, and country by country, across Europe, to nations including Hungary.