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 ...

After the war, Adolf Eichmann gloried in being a Nazi more than we have been led to believe. ... Book review: Eichmann Before Jerusalem. By STEVEN ASCHHEIM. Published 25th Oct 2014, 17:49 BST.

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.

It is scarcely possible to think of Adolf Eichmann without immediately thinking of Hannah Arendt’s term, “the banality of evil.” Perhaps, then, the subtitle of David Cesarani’s book ...

The book is a hunt for the real Eichmann, and to accomplish that, Stangneth smartly sets up an “origins” story of the years before Eichmann stood trial in Jerusalem in 1962 and was then executed.

Norman Lebrecht, in reviewing two books on the life and thought of Hannah Arendt (Nov. 6), claims that “By law and logic, she felt, [Adolf Eichmann] was unworthy of capture, trial, or execution ...

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 ...