Product Overview
A New York TimesNotable Book
A National Jewish Book Award finalist
In 1960, Adolf Eichmann took to the defendants box in Jerusalem and insisted that he was no manager of the Holocaust, as his accusers claimed, just a smalltime bureaucrat following orders. Like countless others, Hannah Arendtcovering the trials for The New Yorkerbelieved him. Eichmann Before Jerusalem challenges this history for the first time, completely reassessing Eichmanns story and drawing upon a wealth of newly uncovered materials that reveal his great deception, as well as bringing to light shocking truths about Nazis in the post-war world. Mapping out the astonishing links between innumerable past adherentsfrom ace Luftwaffe pilots to SS henchmenboth in exile and in Germany, Bettina Stangneth reconstructs in detail the secret life of one of the Holocausts principal organizers.
