Adolf Eichmann will begin testimony in his own defense on June 19 and will testify during morning sessions for about eight days under an informal agreement reached today between the defense and the ...

Norman Lebrecht, in reviewing two books on the life and thought of Hannah Arendt (Nov. 6), claims that “By law and logic, she felt, [Adolf Eichmann] was unworthy of capture, trial, or execution.” But ...

Sixty-three years ago, the Eichmann trial opened in Jerusalem. It had a lasting impact on the ways in which we perceive the Holocaust. The trial was an occasion for heated debate and controversy.

German philosopher and historian Stangneth provides plenty of evidence to dispel Adolf Eichmann’s cowardly testimony at his 1961 trial in Jerusalem, where he claimed he was simply a “small cog in ...

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Robert Jay Lifton changed how I think about the world and about my family. By M. Gessen In “The Prosecutor,” Jack Fairweather tells the story of Fritz Bauer, the German jurist who helped find Eichmann ...

The Israel Ministry of Justice today decided that the trial of Adolf Eichmann, who directed the killing of 6, 000, 000 Jews under the Nazi regime, should be held in Jerusalem despite other suggestions ...

Political theorist Hannah Arendt’s “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” an account of the trial of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann that caused a veritable firestorm when it was originally published in 1963, turned ...

“If we had killed 10.3 million Jews I would say with satisfaction, ‘Good, we destroyed an enemy.’ Then we would have fulfilled our mission. And thus, to my regret, it was not to be.” An ...

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 ...