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

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 1963, writing her first seminal dispatch from the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt observed that whoever built the Israeli Palace of Justice “obviously had a theater in mind ...

Hannah Arendt came up with the concept of “the banality of evil” during the trial of Adolf Eichmann. Aired 06/27/2025 How Hannah Arendt developed the concept of "the banality of evil" ...

Hannah Arendt” aired on June 27, but it’s available for streaming through July 25 at The second film moves in tandem with ...

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 ...

PBS film on Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt offers vital lessons ... It was because they were “recipients of orders,” in the words used by Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann during his trial ...

Adolf Eichmann stands in his bullet-proof glass cage in Israel's Supreme Court. In 1961, Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, was tried in Israel. Writer Hannah Arendt attended the trial.

But in the case of Adolf Eichmann, we now know that Hannah Arendt was wrong. Because Eichmann said so himself. This is Adolf Eichmann, his actual voice, speaking in recordings made in Argentina in ...

In 1961, Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, was tried in Israel. Writer Hannah Arendt attended the trial. In Eichmann, she saw a passive, mindless bureaucrat. The banality of evil. A line ...