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Eichmann before Jerusalem : the unexamined life of a mass murderer / Bettina Stangneth ; translated from the German by Ruth Martin.
Van Pelt Library DD247.E5 S7313 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stangneth, Bettina, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Eichmann vor Jerusalem. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962.
- Eichmann, Adolf.
- War criminals--Germany--Biography.
- War criminals.
- Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 579 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
- Summary:
- "A total re-assessment of the life of Adolf Eichmann that reveals his activities and notoriety amongst a global network of National Socialists following the collapse of the Third Reich, and permanently undermines Hannah Arendt's often-cited notion of the "banality of evil.""-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- "My name became a symbol." The path into the public eye
- The postwar career of a name
- Detested anonymity
- Interlude. A false trail in the Middle East
- Eichmann in Argentina. Life in the "promised land"
- Home front
- One good turn
- The so-called Sassen Interviews. Eichmann the author
- Eichmann in conversation
- A false sense of security
- A change of role. Eichmann in Jerusalem
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-555) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780307959676
- 0307959678
- OCLC:
- 868225783
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