| Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer | |
| Border: | yes |
| Author: | Bettina Stangneth |
| Title Orig: | Eichmann vor Jerusalem – Das unbehelligte Leben eines Massenmörders |
| Orig Lang Code: | de |
| Translator: | Ruth Martin |
| Country: | Switzerland |
| Language: | German |
| Subject: | Holocaust, psychology, human behavior |
| Published: | 2011 |
| Publisher: | Arche-Verlag |
| Isbn: | 978-3-7160-2669-4 |
Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer (German: '''Eichmann vor Jerusalem – Das unbehelligte Leben eines Massenmörders''') is a book by Bettina Stangneth originally published in German in 2011. An edition in English appeared in 2014.[1]
The work challenges Hannah Arendt's portrayal of Adolf Eichmann in as an unintelligent and thoughtless bureaucrat. Stangneth shows that Eichmann's actions were the results of intentional, well-thought-out decisions of a man who strongly subscribed to Nazi ideology and who took pride in his actions.[2] [3] [4] [5]