Volume 1, Number 3 · September 26, 1963
The Eichmann Question
By George Lichtheim
The Capture and Trial of Adolf Eichmann
by Moishe Pearlman
Simon Schuster, 666 pp., $8.95
The Eichmann trial has become the focus of a controversy which transcends national and religious frontiers. In Germany the issue has recently been given an extra dimension by the storm over Hochhuth's play, The Vicar: an impassioned indictment of the Vatican's wartime policy of silence, and especially of Pope Pius XII, who is represented as indifferent to the massacre of the Jews and solely concerned with stemming the menacing flood of Communism. With the German Episcopate up in arms over this play, and a fresh storm promised when The Vicar reaches London and New York, as it soon will, both the critics and the public have something bigger to think about than the controversy over the alleged failure of the various Jewish organizations to resist or sabotage Hitler's 'final solution' which has followed, especially in the United States, from the publication of Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem.[1]
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