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Title The Eichmann trial reconsidered / edited by Rebecca Wittmann
Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource
Series German and European studies
German and European studies.
Contents Coming to Terms with the "Banality of Evil": Implications of the Eichmann Trial for Social Scientific Research on Perpetrator Behaviour / James E. Waller -- From History to Story: When the "Architect" of the Holocaust Became His Own "Witness" / Fabien Théofilakis -- Revisiting Eichmann and Zionism: Contexts, Strange Encounters, and Their Afterlives / Michael Berkowitz -- Prosecuting "Crimes against the Jewish People": The Eichmann Trial and the History of a Legal Concept / Laura Jockusch -- The Eichmann Trial: Toward a Jurisprudence of Eyewitness Testimonies of Atrocity? / Leora Bilsky -- What Makes a Prosecution an International Landmark Trial? Reflections on the Tensions between Legal Proceedings, Politics, and Historical Facts / Ruth Bettina Birn -- The Eichmann Trial's Impact Reconsidered / Boaz Cohen -- The Eichmann Trial and the Relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and Israel: A Positive or Negative Influence? / Dominique Trimbur -- The Impact of the Eichmann Trial on Relations between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany / Roni Stauber -- The Impact of the Eichmann Affair on Arab Holocaust Discourse / Esther Webman -- Remaking Eichmann: Memories of Mass Murder and the Transatlantic Student Movements of the 1960s / Thomas Pegelow Kaplan -- From 2-Inch to YouTube: The Audiovisual Documentation and Broadcast of the Eichmann Trial / Liat Benhabib
Summary "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, film studies, political science, sociology, psychology, and law. Contributing scholars adopt a wide historical lens, pushing outwards in time and space to examine the historical and legal influence that Adolf Eichmann and his trial held for Israel, West Germany, and the Middle East. In addition to taking up the question of what drove Eichmann, contributors explore the motivation of prosecutors, lawyers, diplomats, and neighbouring countries before, during, and after the trial ended. The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered puts Eichmann at the centre of an exploration of German versus Israeli jurisprudence, national Israeli identities and politics, and the conflict between German, Israeli, and Arab states."-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Adolf Eichmann
Eichmann Trial
Holocaust architect
Holocaust
Israel
Nazi trials
banality of evil
crimes against humanity
international law
landmark trial
memory
post-war Germany
war crimes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 04, 2021)
Subject Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962 -- Trials, litigation, etc
SUBJECT Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962 fast
Subject Trials (Genocide) -- Jerusalem
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
HISTORY / Jewish
Trials (Genocide)
Middle East -- Jerusalem
Genre/Form Trials, litigation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Wittmann, Rebecca, 1970- editor.
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