The Forward

In ‘The Devil’s Confession,’ Adolf Eichmann hangs himself with his own words

When you call your film The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes, you’re announcing a judgment less measured than that 0f Hannah Arendt, who made the bespectacled Nazi bureaucrat the poster boy ...
NOLA.com

'Banality of evil': Adolf Eichmann, paper-pusher who sent Jews to their deaths, examined in 'Operation Finale'

The decision to house a traveling exhibit at The National World War II Museum about Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Holocaust, was simple, said Collin Makamson, the museum’s assistant director of ...
The New York Times

Adolf Eichmann

Fifty years after her death, the German-born political thinker has been enshrined as a prophet for our times. What did she actually say? By Jennifer Szalai Robert Jay Lifton changed how I think about ...
WBUR

The Eichmann tapes and the comforting myth of the 'banality of evil'

In 1961, Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, was tried in Israel. Writer Hannah Arendt attended the trial. In Eichmann, she saw a passive, mindless bureaucrat. The banality of evil. A line ...
CNN

60 years ago, we saw the face of evil

Editor’s Note: Elie Honig is a CNN senior legal analyst. His op-ed is part of a special documentary project commemorating the 60th anniversary of the trial of Adolf Eichmann. Watch the full-length ...
WBUR

Rebroadcast: The Eichmann tapes and the comforting myth of the 'banality of evil'

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 ...