Volume 8, Number 4 · March 9, 1967
More Heat on the Subject
By Guenter Lewy
Justice in Jerusalem
by Gideon Hausner
Harper & Row, 528 pp., $12.50
Here is the latest contribution, five years after the event in Jerusalem, to the extensive literature provoked by the trial of Adolf Eichmann. It is the prosecutor's own story and since it was the prosecution's handling of the case which gave rise to much of the controversy about the trial, this book will undoubtedly add more fuel to an already overheated debate. To be sure, the author disclaims any intention of answering his most severe critic. Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, he tells us, 'has been refuted by many reviewers, most recently in a comprehensive point-by-point rebuttal in Dr. Jacob Robinson's And the Crooked Shall Be Made Straight…Consequently I refrain from dealing with her book at all in these pages.' But this assertion is hardly the whole truth. In fact, Hausner himself seems to share the reaction of those who doubted the efficacy of Robinson's rebuttal, for he spends much effort in a new attempt to counter Miss Arendt's main theses.
Review, 1732 words
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