Volume 1, Number 2 · June 1, 1963
Death in Jerusalem
By Stephen Spender
Eichmann In Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
by Hannah Arendt
Viking Press, $5.50
Hannah Arendt's book is a brilliant and disturbing study of the character and the trial of Adolf Eichmann. Eichmann, himself, scareely seems to be one of the major figures in the Germany that killed six million Jews. He is, rather, an agent, conditioned to follow orders, who had certain gifts as an organizer. In her own summing up, Miss Arendt distinguishes between the responsibility of an agent and the passivity of a mere cog. As the moral argument for Eichmann's execution, Hannah Arendt writes in her conclusion:
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