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Eichmann in Jerusalem

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil is a 1963 book by the philosopher and political thinker Hannah Arendt. A Jew who fled Germany during Adolf Hitler's rise to power, Arendt reported for The New Yorker on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the key organizers of the Holocaust. A revised and enlarged edition was published in 1964.