Eichmann in Jerusalem

actions were contributing to the extermination of the Jewish people she believed that Eichmann was the “banality of evil”. This means that although Eichmann was in charge in organizing the mass deportation of Jews he himself was a fairly normal person. Eichmann didn 't really think about what he was doing, he was more interested in being efficient in his job and not thinking of the consequences. She believes that Eichmann was interested in personal investment and being part of something…

Arendt had in her book "Eichmann in Jerusalem" (Parker 97). Eichmann was a Nazi officer who followed orders by being the one to order the murders of hundreds of innocent Jews. Arendt saw Eichmann as a victim to the cruelties of other's ideas (Milgram 85). She believed he was just obeying the officer over him (Milgram 85). However, Sol Stern would say otherwise in his review, "The Lies of Hannah Arendt." Stern sees that Arendt truly admitted to herself the cruelties Eichmann did order (Stern). He…

obey blindly. This kind of “banality” is very easy to become the tools from the totalitarian govern. In “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, Arendt says “That such remoteness from reality and such thoughtlessness can wreak more havoc than all the evil instincts taken together which, perhaps, are inherent in man - that was, in fact, the lesson one could learn in Jerusalem” (Arendt, pg. 180). Meanwhile, she also refuses to use a specific history to make a mystery of “evil”…

Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany’s Nazi party, carried out the deaths of millions during his time in power whilst sustaining the support of the German people. As a notorious and influential dictator of the twentieth century, he utilized the post-war trauma of economic hardship, political conflict, and popular discontent in order to take absolute power in Germany despite the fact that the Nazis never attained more than 37 percent of the vote (History.com). As a leader, he overlapped his…

individual is shown in Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, A Report of the Banality of Evil when Adolf Eichmann reflects on his life after Germany’s 1945 defeat, noting “’I would have to live a leaderless and difficult individual life, I would receive no directives from anybody, no orders and commands would any longer be issued to me… in brief, a life never known before lay before me’” (Arendt, 37). During the Nazi rise to power, the lost, unemployed Eichmann joined the Nazis rather…

With a mass of accounts from victims and witnesses of the Holocaust in both fiction and nonfiction literature, the representation of a Perpetrator first person perspective is rare. Littell constructs a character that allows this perspective to be fully exploited whilst Binet avoids giving his characters free speech and sticks to a more traditional omniscient narrator. Perpetrator narrative may be uncomfortable to read, however it is arguably required to fully understand Nazi power and give an…

later talked about his discoveries in more noteworthy profundity in his 1974 book, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View. The experiments started in July 1961, a year after the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Milgram contrived the experiment to answer the inquiry "Could it be that Eichmann and his million…

approval as these Jewish leaders took off their coats, laid them at his feet, and stoned Stephen to death. The stoning of Stephen marked the beginning of the great persecution of the Christians. This persecution was so great, that the Christians fled Jerusalem and went to Judea and Samaria. Notice in verse 8:4 that these Christians who were scattered went and preached the Good News wherever they went. They were fleeing from being persecuted because they of their belief in Jesus and still they…

as the Obedience to Authority Experiment, conducted by Stanley Milgram in 1961. He started studying this phenomenon in order to understand the behaviour of individuals subject to authority, after Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust, declared during the trial held in Jerusalem, that he was just carrying out Hitler's orders. For what reason do humans, in specific circumstances, delegate their own autonomy to authority? Are people able to execute orders, that are…

Phineas Gage. An unusually fit man, with an iron build brimming with fortitude. A man with the smarts to find a problem, and the strength to solve it. Yet he was the embarrassment of the family, the man who never held his tongue. The man who could not hold a job anywhere, and did not care for anyone besides himself. No one, especially Phineas Gage, could foresee the change that he would be struck with one faithful day in 1848. They stood on the grey-brown, dirt and gravel path. Shards of rock…