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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book is about a famous trial of Adolf Eichmann, a former German Nazi SS lieutenant colonel who was in charge of collecting and deporting the Jews from all over Europe to concentration camps, written by Hannah Arendt, one of the most brilliant thinkers and intellectuals of the modern time. Originally written as a trial report for the New Yorker, Arendt described the scenes of the trial held in the court of Jerusalem, the characteristics and physiognomy of Eichmann, and the general ambiance of the trial without sentiments or belle lettres. Her narration style is more of journalism than of storytelling in evident consideration of the fact that she wrote it as a series of report for The New Yorker. And the languages she used to portray the whole trial and Eichmann were so highly academic and philosophically intricate that the reader might find this book abstruse to completely absorb the content in one sitting. And yet, it is worth finish reading it because the author provides the reader with her stoic and disinterested opinions on the nature of the trial and on the accused as what she observed during the trial based on facts and reason.