Eichmann in Jerusalem

by Arendt, Hannah

• ISBN13: 9780143039884
• ISBN10: 0143039881
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-14
• Publisher: Penguin USA

Summary

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

Author Biography

Hannah Arendt (1906-û1975) came to the U.S. as a refugee from the Nazis in 1940. The Portable Hannah Arendt (Penguin Classics) collects substantial excerpts from her political writings.

Amos Elon, a frequent essayist, lecturer, and critic, is well known for his articles in the New Yorker and New York Review of Books.

Jerome Kohn is the director of the Hannah Arendt Center at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research.

Jonathan Schell is the Harold Willens Peace Fellow at the Nation Institute.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Amos Elon
Note to the Reader	xxiv
The House of Justice	3	(18)
The Accused	21	(15)
An Expert on the Jewish Question	36	(20)
The First Solution: Expulsion	56	(12)
The Second Solution: Concentration	68	(15)
The Final Solution: Killing	83	(29)
The Wannsee Conference, or Pontius Pilate	112	(23)
Duties of a Law--Abiding Citizen	135	(16)
Deportations from the Reich---Germany, Austria and the Protectorate	151	(11)
Deportations from Western Europe---France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Italy	162	(19)
Deportations, from the Balkans---Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Rumania	181	(13)
Deportations from Central Europe---Hungary and Slovakia	194	(12)
The Killing Centers in the East	206	(14)
Evidence and Witnesses	220	(14)
Judgment, Appeal, and Execution	234	(19)
Epilogue	253	(27)
Postscript	280	(19)
Bibliography	299	(5)
Index	304