The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered /

The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered / / ed. by Rebecca Wittmann.

The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered brings together leading authorities in a transnational, international, and supranational study of Adolf Eichmann, who was captured by the Israelis in Argentina and tried in Jerusalem in 1961. The essays in this important new collection span the disciplines of history,...

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MitwirkendeR:
Benhabib, Liat,
Berkowitz, Michael,
Bilsky, Leora,
Birn, Ruth Bettina,
Cohen, Boaz,
Jockusch, Laura,
Pegelow Kaplan, Thomas,
Stauber, Roni,
Théofilakis, Fabien,
Trimbur, Dominique,
Waller, James E.,
Webman, Esther,
Wittmann, Rebecca,
HerausgeberIn:
Wittmann, Rebecca,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:German and European Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 4 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I Eichmann on Trial
  • 1 Coming to Terms with the “Banality of Evil”: Implications of the Eichmann Trial for Social Scientific Research on Perpetrator Behaviour
  • 2 From History to Story: When the “Architect” of the Holocaust Became His Own “Witness”
  • 3 Revisiting Eichmann and Zionism: Contexts, Strange Encounters, and Their Afterlives
  • PART II Eichmann and Jurisprudence
  • 4 Prosecuting “Crimes against the Jewish People”: The Eichmann Trial and the History of a Legal Concept
  • 5 The Eichmann Trial: Towards a Jurisprudence of Victims as Eyewitnesses to Genocide
  • 6 What Makes a Prosecution an International Landmark Trial? Reflections on the Tensions between Legal Proceedings, Politics, and Historical Facts
  • PART III Eichmann and Geopolitics
  • 7 The Eichmann Trial’s Impact Reconsidered
  • 8 The Eichmann Trial and the Relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and Israel: A Positive or Negative Influence?
  • 9 The Impact of the Eichmann Trial on Relations between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 10 The Impact of the Eichmann Affair on Arab Holocaust Discourse
  • PART IV Representing Eichmann
  • 11 Remaking Eichmann: Memories of Mass Murder and the Transatlantic Student Movements of the 1960s
  • 12 From 2-Inch to YouTube: The Audiovisual Documentation and Broadcast of the Eichmann Trial
  • Contributors

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