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mkhoshy 's review for:
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
by Hannah Arendt
This is a pretty controversial report on the Eichmann trial, but then I can’t imagine any report of a nazi war criminal’s trial dodging controversy. Her thesis is compelling (in my opinion), that while we picture a monster when we think of Eichmann, it was really just ambition to climb the ranks that drove him, and that he wasn’t smart and was very much a follower. Her writing style is winding and prosaic and often hard to follow, but I learned so much about the complicity of some European countries in the ‘final solution’, and the resistance of others, and her most devastating criticism reserved for the Zionist leaders who she argues (unintentionally) lead more Jews to their death than would have otherwise.