Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt , the author of “ The Origins of Totalitarianism ,” died in 1975. Her earliest reporting for The New Yorker became the 1963 book “ Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil .”

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EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM—V

a reporter at large · March 16, 1963

REPORTER AT LARGE about the trial in Israel of Nazi Adolf Eichmann. This section deals with his capture in Argentina by Israeli Secret Service and then …

EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM—IV

a reporter at large · March 9, 1963

REPORTER AT LARGE about the trial in Israel of Adolf Eichmann, former Nazi official, accused of playing a principal role in the Nazi program to exterminate…

EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM—III

a reporter at large · March 2, 1963

REPORTER AT LARGE, continued, about the Eichmann trial. The Nazi plan to physically exterminate the Jews of Europe was known as the "Final Solution". In …

Eichmann in Jerusalem—II

a reporter at large · February 23, 1963

Part 2 of Hannah Arendt’s 1963 report on the “banality of evil” and the trial of the former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann for his role in the Holocaust.

Eichmann in Jerusalem—I

a reporter at large · February 16, 1963

Part 1 of Hannah Arendt’s 1963 report on the “banality of evil” and the trial of the former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann for his role in the Holocaust.