eichmann, adolf

Presents a short history of Adolf Eichman, the Nazi SS officer charged with orchestrating the killing of millions of Jews during World War Two, and describes the efforts of Nazi hunters to locate him and bring him to trial.

Presents volume one in an eight-volume series featuring Holocaust biographies and examines the role that Adolf Eichmann played in the systematic extermination of over six million Jews during World War Two and provides information on his youth, his rise in the Nazi Party, and escape, capture, and execution in 1962.

Chronicles the trial of the Nazi war criminal, which became a reminder to the world of the horrors of the Jewish Holocaust.

Presents selections from Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil," as well as excerpts from Arent's reporting on high-ranking Nazi Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for "The New Yorker" magazine, in which she considers the tendency of ordinary people to follow orders and conform to mass opinion without thought to the consequences of their actions.

A biography of the Nazi leader responsible for organizing the execution of the Jews in the Holocaust.