Almost 75 years after Hitler’s suicide, the evil of the Third Reich is like the sun; if you stare straight at it, you’ll get burned. We avert our eyes through satire (Springtime for Hitler, the ...

Adolf Eichmann stands in his glass cage, flanked by guards, in a Jerusalem courtroom during his trial in 1961 for war crimes committed during World War II. AP Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann penned a ...

In 1961, Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, was tried in Israel. Writer Hannah Arendt attended the trial. In Eichmann, she saw a passive, mindless bureaucrat. The banality of evil. A line ...

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 ...

Adolf Eichmann admitted here today, under continued, grueling cross-examination, that he knew early in the Hitler era that the Nazis’ “final solution” of the Jewish problem meant mass murder. He also ...

Adolf Eichmann was disclosed today to have told his Israeli interrogators that he had many Jewish relatives, that he was “neither a Jew-hater nor an anti-Semite” and that all “my men knew it.” ...

The identity of the hangman who executed Adolf Eichmann in 1962 was kept secret for three decades. By the time Shalom Nagar’s name was unearthed by Israeli journalists, Nagar had retired from Israel’s ...

Sixty years ago, on Dec. 15, 1961, Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death, following one of the most publicized trials in history. Improbably, it became the basis of a Superman comic ...

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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