Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil In her book‚ Eichmann in Jerusalem‚ Hannah Arendt uses the life and trial of Adolf Eichmann to explore man’s responsibility for evils committed under orders or as a result of the law. Due to the fact that she believed that Eichmann was neither anti-Semitic‚ nor a psychopath‚ Arendt was widely criticized for treating Eichmann too sympathetically. Still‚ her work on the Eichmann trial is among the most respected works on the issue to date
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lieutenant colonel Adolf Eichmann represented the epitome of desk murderers. “A hundred dead people is a catastrophe‚” Eichmann told. “Six million dead is a statistic” (Rice 57). Born on March 19‚ 1906 in Solingen Germany‚ it wasn’t long before Eichmann moved with his family to Linz‚ Austria to finish schooling and get a career. Upon completing school‚ he wanted to study mechanical engineering‚ but couldn’t complete it because of the rough economic situation in Germany in the 20’s. Eichmann moved from job
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Adam McShane May 4‚ 2011 Honors American Lit. Adolf Eichmann I-SEARCH Adolf Eichmann The Holocaust‚ an event in the 1930 ’s and 40 ’s that changed the world greatly. It was responsible for the killing of 6 million European Jews. Many people think Adolf Hitler was the evil man who was in charge of the ruthless genocide of these people. However‚ he is not. Adolf Eichmann is the man responsible for creating the "Final Solution" the plan to extreminate the Jewish race. I had many questions
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Arendt’s book Eichmann in Jerusalem‚ Arendt gives an account of the trial of Adolf Eichmann and provides analysis of the case‚ focusing on the question of Eichmann’s conscience. Arendt believes that the judges missed the “greatest moral and even legal challenge of the whole case”: Eichmann’s inability to tell right from wrong. Her argument that Eichmann’s conscience was “quieted” due to the influence of his social environment‚ peers‚ and superiors is convincing‚ and as I read Eichmann in Jerusalem
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not a trained‚ professional historian and thus her writing on the Eichmann case was focussed on a philosophical interest she had with the nature of evil. As a Jew who fled Germany from the Nazis in 1933 and then also fled France in 1940‚ Arendt uses her 1963 report to focus on the ‘banality of evil’ to deny Nazism all glamour‚ a way of showing her utter contempt for the movement. This contempt extends to her portrayal of Eichmann‚ as she does not exhibit hatred towards him‚ instead seeing him as
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ADOLF EICHMANN The Holocaust was one of the greatest tragedies the world has ever known. There were many key people who participated in this outrageous genocide however some get more attention then others. Adolf Eichmann is a classic example. Eichmann was a self-proclaimed "Jewish Specialist" and head of the Gestapo Department. Eichmann was responsible for keeping every train rolling right into the stations of the concentration and death camps during the holocaust. Now we will take a
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year 1933 hitler is gaining power and only getting more powerful. In the year 1933 Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. In 1934 Hitler gained the presidency of Germany. (28 Wood Angela) Immediately as Hitler gained total power of Germany concentration camps in Germany had been starting up. Concentration camps have already been starting to grow throughout Europe within the first year that Hitler was their. Adolf Hitler has became chancellor of Germany‚ the date was January 30th 1933. (28 Wood
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Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 at Austria. He was the fourth of six children to Alois Hitler and Klara Polzl (Klara Hitler). When Hitler was three‚ the family moved to Passau‚ Germany. There he acquired the distinctive lower Bavarian dialect‚ rather than Austrian German‚ which marked his speech all of his life.In 1894 the family relocated to Leonding (near Linz)‚ and in June 1895‚ Alois retired to a small landholding at Hafeld‚ near Lambach‚ where he farmed and kept bees. Adolf attended school
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Laws of War The term "laws of war" refers to the rules governing the actual conduct of armed conflict. This idea that there actually exists rules that govern war is a difficult concept to understand. The simple act of war in and of itself seems to be in violation of an almost universal law prohibiting one human being from killing another. But during times of war murder of the enemy is allowed‚ which leads one to the question‚ "if murder is permissible then what possible "laws of war" could there
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Jews were held to work or die. This concentration camp the most deadliest out of all of them during World War II. Families were killed and some were released afterward. Those people are still tormented with the memories. Many people were placed after Adolf Hitler‚ an Austrian man‚ was put in charge of Germany and convinced many people that his actions were right. The Nazis sided with Hitler and ruled along with him which allowed them to make declarations. People who were imprisoned had a starving and
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