Bibliograph

Eichmann before Jerusalem, the unexamined life of a mass murderer, Bettina Stangneth ; translated from the German by Ruth Martin

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Eichmann before Jerusalem, the unexamined life of a mass murderer, Bettina Stangneth ; translated from the German by Ruth Martin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Eichmann before Jerusalem

Responsibility statement

Bettina Stangneth ; translated from the German by Ruth Martin

Sub title

the unexamined life of a mass murderer

Summary

Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann managed to live a peaceful and active exile in Argentina for years before his capture by the Mossad. Though once widely known by nicknames such as 'Manager of the Holocaust', he was able to portray himself, from the defendant's box in Jerusalem in 1960, as an overworked bureaucrat following orders - no more, he said, than 'just a small cog in Adolf Hitler's extermination machine'. How was this carefully crafted obfuscation possible? How did a principal architect of the Final Solution manage to disappear? And how had he occupied himself in hiding?

Target audience

adult

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