
A New York Times Notable BookA National Jewish Book Award finalistIn 1960, Adolf Eichmann took to the defendant’s box in Jerusalem and insisted that he was no “manager of the Holocaust,” as his accusers claimed, just a smalltime bureaucrat following orders. Like countless others, Hannah Arendt—covering the trials for The New Yorker—believed him. Eichmann Before Jerusalem challenges this history fo...
Paperback: 608 pages
Publisher: Vintage; Translation edition (August 18, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307950166
ISBN-13: 978-0307950161
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.1 x 9.2 inches
Amazon Rank: 852661
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This book is a stunning counterattack on Arandt's thesis that Eichmann represented the banal clerk who fell into great evil. That thesis was a huge influence on our view of the world's evil men since its publication in 1963. Eichmann took this pers...
time, completely reassessing Eichmann’s story and drawing upon a wealth of newly uncovered materials that reveal his great deception, as well as bringing to light shocking truths about Nazis in the post-war world. Mapping out the astonishing links between innumerable past adherents—from ace Luftwaffe pilots to SS henchmen—both in exile and in Germany, Bettina Stangneth reconstructs in detail the secret life of one of the Holocaust’s principal organizers.