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 attended ...
Fifty years after her death, the German-born political thinker has been enshrined as a prophet for our times. What did she actually say? By Jennifer Szalai Robert Jay Lifton changed how I think about ...
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 ...
Adolf Eichmann’s 1962 Letter to President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi of Israel A handwritten letter dated May 29, 1962, by Adolf Eichmann to the president of Israel asking for a pardon and commutation of his ...