The Eichmann Trial

The Eichmann Trial
Author: Deborah E. Lipstadt
Publisher: Schocken
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2011-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0805242910

***NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST (2012)*** Part of the Jewish Encounter series The capture of SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann by Israeli agents in Argentina in May of 1960 and his subsequent trial in Jerusalem by an Israeli court electrified the world. The public debate it sparked on where, how, and by whom Nazi war criminals should be brought to justice, and the international media coverage of the trial itself, was a watershed moment in how the civilized world in general and Holocaust survivors in particular found the means to deal with the legacy of genocide on a scale that had never been seen before. Award-winning historian Deborah E. Lipstadt gives us an overview of the trial and analyzes the dramatic effect that the survivors’ courtroom testimony—which was itself not without controversy—had on a world that had until then regularly commemorated the Holocaust but never fully understood what the millions who died and the hundreds of thousands who managed to survive had actually experienced. As the world continues to confront the ongoing reality of genocide and ponder the fate of those who survive it, this trial of the century, which has become a touchstone for judicial proceedings throughout the world, offers a legal, moral, and political framework for coming to terms with unfathomable evil. Lipstadt infuses a gripping narrative with historical perspective and contemporary urgency.

Eichmann in Jerusalem

Eichmann in Jerusalem
Author: Hannah Arendt
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2006-09-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1101007168

The controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust, from the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence, Eichmann in Jerusalem is as shocking as it is informative—an unflinching look at one of the most unsettling (and unsettled) issues of the twentieth century.

Eichmann Trial Reconsidered

Eichmann Trial Reconsidered
Author: Rebecca Wittmann
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2021
Genre: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN: 1487508492

The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered explores the legacy and consequences of the trial of Adolf Eichmann.

Eichmann Before Jerusalem

Eichmann Before Jerusalem
Author: Bettina Stangneth
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2014-09-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307959686

A total and groundbreaking reassessment of the life of Adolf Eichmann—a superb work of scholarship that reveals his activities and notoriety among a global network of National Socialists following the collapse of the Third Reich and that permanently challenges Hannah Arendt’s notion of the “banality of evil.” Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann managed to live a peaceful and active exile in Argentina for years before his capture by the Mossad. Though once widely known by nicknames such as “Manager of the Holocaust,” in 1961 he was able to portray himself, from the defendant’s box in Jerusalem, as an overworked bureaucrat following orders—no more, he said, than “just a small cog in Adolf Hitler’s extermination machine.” How was this carefully crafted obfuscation possible? How did a central architect of the Final Solution manage to disappear? And what had he done with his time while in hiding? Bettina Stangneth, the first to comprehensively analyze more than 1,300 pages of Eichmann’s own recently discovered written notes— as well as seventy-three extensive audio reel recordings of a crowded Nazi salon held weekly during the 1950s in a popular district of Buenos Aires—draws a chilling portrait, not of a reclusive, taciturn war criminal on the run, but of a highly skilled social manipulator with an inexhaustible ability to reinvent himself, an unrepentant murderer eager for acolytes with whom to discuss past glories while vigorously planning future goals with other like-minded fugitives. A work that continues to garner immense international attention and acclaim, Eichmann Before Jerusalem maps out the astonishing links between innumerable past Nazis—from ace Luftwaffe pilots to SS henchmen—both in exile and in Germany, and reconstructs in detail the postwar life of one of the Holocaust’s principal organizers as no other book has done

Eichmann in Jerusalem

Eichmann in Jerusalem
Author: Hannah Arendt
Publisher: Topeka Bindery
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1963
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781417790036

Hannah Arendts authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann includes further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendts postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account.

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Author: Edward Frederick Langley Russell Baron Russell of Liverpool
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Documentary films
ISBN: 9780712645928

The classic account of this notorious case -- the story of a man who believed his obedience to an order exonerated him from the responsibility for unbelievable crimes. Adolf Eichmann stood alone in the dock at Jerusalem, as the prosecution presented a full account of the, "Final Solution of the Jewish Problem." The manhunt for Eichmann lasted fifteen years, and ended in 1960 when Israeli agents found him working for a water-supply company in Argentina. Since the Argentinean government refused to agree to his extradition, Eichmann was abducted and taken under arrest to Israel. The horrific story of Eichmann, one of the prime engineers of the Nazis mass murder of six million Jews, provides an in-depth picture of the most catastrophic events of the twentieth century.

The Eichmann Trial Diary

The Eichmann Trial Diary
Author: Sergio I. Minerbi
Publisher: Enigma Books
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1936274213

Easy to read and scrupulously accurate.

History on Trial

History on Trial
Author: Deborah E. Lipstadt
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2006-04-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0060593776

In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called putative WWII historian David Irving "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." A prolific author of books on Nazi Germany who has claimed that more people died in Ted Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than in the gas chambers at Auschwitz, Irving responded by filing a libel lawsuit in the United Kingdom -- where the burden of proof lies on the defendant, not on the plaintiff. At stake were not only the reputations of two historians but the record of history itself.

Facing the Glass Booth

Facing the Glass Booth
Author: Haim Gouri
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780814330876

A detailed historical account of Adolf Eichmann's trial that changed attitudes toward Holocaust survivors in Israeli society.