Gideon Hausner, Adolf Eichmann’s chief prosecutor, demanded today the death penalty for the former Gestapo colonel. The Attorney General told the three judge court which convicted Eichmann Tuesday ...

This rebroadcast originally aired on July 15, 2022. Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. In 1961, Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, was tried in Israel. Writer Hannah Arendt attended ...

Attorney General Gideon Hausner, presenting his summation of evidence against Adolf Eichmann, described the defendant today as the “chief executive officer of extermination” of European Jewry. The ...

Holocaust survivors often refer to the "banality of evil" when describing how remarkably ordinary even the highest-ranking Nazis seemed after their capture for aiding the mass murder of more than 6 ...

Gabriel Bach, a member of the Israeli team that prosecuted Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, died Friday. He was 94. Bach, a former Israeli Supreme Court justice, also served as a state prosecutor and ...

It seems a stretch to think of Adolf Eichmann as having had an “unexamined life.” Since his 1960 trial in Israel, and Hannah Arendt’s controversial 1963 account, “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on ...

Fifty years after her death, the German-born political thinker has been enshrined as a prophet for our times. What did she actually say? By Jennifer Szalai Robert Jay Lifton changed how I think about ...

Fifty years ago one of the world's most notorious war criminals sat in a courtroom for a trial that would be among the first in history to be completely televised. That man was Adolf Eichmann — and he ...

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