Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann: An Eyewitness Account

by Harry Mulisch

Book Overview

The trial of Adolf Eichmann began in 1961 under a deceptively simple label, "criminal case 40/61." Hannah Arendt covered the trial for the New Yorker magazine and recorded her observations in Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Banality of Evil. Harry Mulisch was also assigned to cover the trial for a Dutch news weekly. Arendt would later say in her book's preface that Mulisch was one of the few people who shared her views on the character...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812238613
• ISBN13: 9780812238617
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"