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Eichmann in Jerusalem

A Report on the Banality of Evil

by Hannah Arendt

HistoryHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)JewsJews in EuropeNonfictionPersecutionsWar crime trialsHolocaust

**Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil** is a 1963 book by political theorist *Hannah Arendt*. Arendt, a Jew who fled Germany during Adolf Hitler's rise to power, reported on Adolf Eichmann's trial for The New Yorker. A revised and enlarged edition was published in 1964.

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