When Hannah Arendt famously discussed the trial of Otto Adolf Eichmann, a leading Nazi officer and major organizer in the horrors of The Holocaust, her conclusion was deeply controversial.
‘Neither perverted nor sadistic’, but ‘terrifyingly normal’ is how historian and philosopher Hannah Arendt had described Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi officer in charge of the mass deportation ...
This is the second of a series of articles. Read the first part. Had the trial of Adolf Eichmann, in Jerusalem, been an ordinary trial, with the normal tug of war between prosecution and defense ...
Hannah Arendt was a political thinker who understood ... exploration of totalitarianism and her analysis of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, who was one of the chief architects of the Holocaust.
Hannah Arendt attempted yesterday to clear away the confusion surrounding the moral dilemma which faced citizens of Nazi Germany. The noted political scientist, whose recent book, Eichmann in ...
What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt ... an essential question in some of Arendt’s most influential—and hotly contested—writings, such as The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in ...
Hannah Arendt is an observer at Adolf Eichmann’s trial. She is expecting to be confronted with a monster. Instead, she is faced with a banal bureaucrat. The reflective portrait of a brave and ...
The journalist Hannah Arendt, who attended the trial ... the wider role played by faceless administrators like Adolf Eichmann. This short film will be relevant for teaching history.