The State of Israel vs. Adolf Eichmann (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Hanna Yablonka
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: History
- Setting: Israel
- Principal Characters: Adolf Eichmann, David Ben-Gurion, Gideon Hausner
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Holocaust literature, Translation
- Subjects: Crime or criminals, World War II, Trials, Ethnic groups, Victims, Jews or Jewish life, War, Nazism or Nazis, Holocaust, Jewish, Israel or Israelis, Concentration camps
- Locales: Israel
On May 23, 1960, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion made an announcement to the Knesset, the Israeli parliament: Agents of Mossad, Israel's secret service, had captured the Holocaust perpetrator Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and brought him to an Israeli prison. As author Hanna Yablonka demonstrates, that arrest began a process that transformed Israeli society and Jewish consciousness.
Born in 1906, Eichmann grew up in Austria and joined the Nazi Party in 1932. As a member of the SS and the Security Service (SD), he developed expertise on Jewish affairs. Although Eichmann did not...
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