Eichmann in Jerusalem

A report on the banality of evil

The book was first published in New York in 1963, it is based on the report of the trial in Jerusalem of Adolf Eichmann, SS Obersturmbahnführer that Arendt did for the magazine The New Yorker.

"Presented Arendt analyzes the seductive nature of evil can not help but worry. We prefer to think that those that contribute to the world of such horror, are different from us and that these extremes - a rarity. But the history of these peoples, Jews, Kurds, Bosnians, Native Americans - a list that goes on and on - suggests that this evil is quite ordinary. By introducing us to Eichmann as a most ordinary little man, Arendt shows how really subtle touch of civility. "