BBC

Recording the Eichmann interviews

Before his capture in 1960, Adolf Eichmann recorded hours of interview about his involvement in the Holocaust with a Dutch journalist. Show more In the 1950s, Dutch journalist Willem Sassen recorded ...
WBUR

The Eichmann tapes and the comforting myth of the 'banality of evil'

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 ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Eichmann’s Brother Asks Israel to Return Nazi’s Personal Belongings

Dr. Robert Eichmann, brother of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi war criminal who was executed here earlier this year for his role in the mass killing of 6,000,000 European Jews, today requested the Israeli ...
BBC

Recording the Eichmann interviews

In the 1950s, Dutch journalist Willem Sassen recorded hours of interview with the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann about his involvement in the Holocaust, before his capture in Argentina by Israeli ...
WBUR

Rebroadcast: The Eichmann tapes and the comforting myth of the 'banality of evil'

This rebroadcast originally aired on July 15, 2022. Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. In 1961, Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, was tried in Israel. Writer Hannah Arendt attended ...