Eichmann before Jerusalem

Eichmann before Jerusalem is history at its best. Meticulously researched, compellingly argued, engagingly written. Bettina Stangneth confronts Hannah Arendts notion of the 'banality of evil' with important new evidence and nuanced insight, permitting a fresh and informed reassessment of this riven debate. Arendt would surely have applauded the Stangneth challenge -- Timothy W. Ryback Stangneth has mined an extraordinary trove of new documentary material Meticulous, scholarly and highly readable... A tour de force of historical revision -- Ben Macintyre * The Times * Thanks to this brilliant book, exhaustively researched and convincingly argued, the veil has at last been lifted [on Eichmann's role in the Holocaust] -- Saul David * The Daily Telegraph * Absorbing... Bettina Stangneth's disturbing account of Adolf Eichmann's years in exile reveals the full extent of his cynicism, inhumanity and moral self-deception -- Richard J Evans * Guardian * Eichmann Before Jerusalem is both an unintimidated challenge to Hannah Arendts glib notion of Eichmanns insignificance and a clear analysis of the origins and enduring uses of Holocaust Denial * Times Literary Supplement * Remarkable * New Yorker * [Stangneths] comprehensive research brings the man and his circumstances firmly back into focus... no future discussion will be able to confront the Eichmann phenomenon and its wider political implications without reference to this book * New York Times Book Review * Extraordinarily moving -- Book of the Week * The Independent * No future discussion of Eichmann will be possible without this book * Scotsman * A brilliant, ground-breaking study * Sddeutsche Zeitung *

Bettina Stangneth wrote her dissertation on Immanuel Kant and the concept of 'Radical Evil' and has written extensively about anti-Semitism in 18th century and National Socialist philosophy. In 2000 she was awarded first prize by the PhilosophicalPolitical Academy, Cologne. She lives in Hamburg.