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."Brilliant and disturbing." --Stephen Spender, The New York Review of Books
"Profound . . . This book is bound to stir our minds and trouble our consciences." --Chicago Tribune
"Deals with the greatest problem of our time . . . the problem of the human being within a modern totalitarian system." --Bruno Bettelheim, The New Republic
Note to the Reader
I The House of Justice 3
II The Accused 21
III An Expert on the Jewish Question 36
IV The First Solution: Expulsion 56
V The Second Solution: Concentration 68
VI The Final Solution: Killing 83
VII The Wannsee Conference, Or Pontius Pilate 112
VIII Duties of a Law-Abiding Citizen 135
IX Deportations from the Reich - Germany, Austria, and the Protectorate 151
X Deportations from Western Europe - France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Italy 162
XI Deportations from the Balkans - Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Rumania 181
XII Deportations from Central Europe - Hungary and Slovakia 194
XIII The Killing Centers in the East 206
XIV Evidence and Witnesses 220
V Judgment, Appeal, and Execution 234
Epilogue 253
Postscript 280
Bibliography 299
Index 304