Eichmann in Jerusalem

reporter for The New Yorker who covered the Eichmann trial in 1961. It was originally her idea to attend the trial and she felt that “she owed it to herself as a social critic, displaced person, witness and survivor” (Arendt xi) to be present for it. The articles that she wrote pertaining to the trial she eventually made into a book. The thesis of Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report of the Banality of Evil is highlighted in the subtitle of the book, as Amos Elon mentioned; the banality of evil. Arendt, ahead of her time, figures out that Eichmann is incapable of thinking, “thoughtless” even, but he is a diligent worker who follows orders and looks out for his own personal advancement and is efficient at whatever his job is, not a monster or demon that the trial makes him out to be. Arendt understands that ordinary people can commit great acts of evil. Eichmann looks just like everyone else and Arendt notes this say that “the trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal” (Arendt 276). However, he is still responsible for sending millions of Jews to their deaths. Eichmann, on the other hand thinks that he did nothing…

The book; Eichmann in Jerusalem: A report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt presents the various irregularities of authority and procedures to render a legal judgment in the trail of Eichmann. Moreover, in this paper, I will be discussing the question of whether justice was attainable in the case Adolf Eichmann, also, I will further examine and outline the strengths and limitations of achieving justice in such cases. As well as outline the meaning of the phrase “Banality of evil”.…

Hanna Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem examines the Holocaust through the trial of Adolph Eichmann. As a young German officer, Eichmann subjected many Jewish people to inhumane treatment. Through her novel, Arendt follows Eichmann's just trial, and in the process, exposes many gruesome details of the Holocaust. The trial served as a time for Adolf Eichmann to be judged and punished. The story of Eichmann's trial, following his slaughter of six million of the jury's peers, reveals the justice…

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northern Kingdom of Israel, Judah had to prepare for an Assyrian annexation and tried to differentiate itself from their northern neighbors. In order to do so King Hezekiah and King Josiah both created religious reforms attempting to centralize the Jerusalem cultic practice and unite the people against both Assyrian and Babylonian aggression. High places became an easy target in the reforms of both kings. A high place is an elevated cultic installation where religious rites were performed.…