| Description |
xxiv, 178 pages : portraits ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Personal takes |
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Personal takes.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiii-xxiv) and index. |
| Language |
Translated from the Dutch. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Deborah Dwork -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The verdict and the execution -- 3. The two faces of Eichmann -- 4. Biography of a German -- 5. Jerusalem diary I -- 6. A ruin in Berlin -- 7. The horror and its depiction -- 8. The horror and its origin -- 9. The order as fate -- 10. The ideal of psycho-technology -- 11. Jerusalem diary II -- 12. On feelings of guilt, guilt, and reality -- 13. On common sense, Christians, and Thomas Mann -- 14. A consideration in Warsaw -- 15. A museum in Oswiecim. |
| Summary |
"Under a deceptively simple lable, "criminal case 40/61," the trial of Adolf Eichmann began in 1961. Mulisch modestly called his book on case 40/61 a report, and it is certainly that, as he gives firsthand accounts of the trial and its key players and scenes (the defendant's face strangely asymmetric and riddled by tics, his speech absurdly baroque). Eichmann's character comes out in his incessant bureaucratizing and calculating, as well as in his grandiose visions of himself as a Pontius Pilate-like innocent. As Mulisch intersperses his dispatches from Jerusalem with meditative accounts of a divided and ruined Berlin, an eerily rebuilt Warsaw, and a visit to the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann emerges as a disturbing and highly personal essay on the Nazi extermination of European Jews and on the human capacity to commit evil ever more efficiently in an age of technological advancement."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962.
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Trials (Genocide) -- Jerusalem.
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War crime trials -- Press coverage -- Netherlands.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962 (OCoLC)fst00012482
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Trials (Genocide) (OCoLC)fst01156339
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War crime trials -- Press coverage.
(OCoLC)fst01170462
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Middle East -- Jerusalem.
(OCoLC)fst01216276
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Netherlands. (OCoLC)fst01204034
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Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst00958866
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| Chronological Term |
1939-1945
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| Added Title |
Zaak 40/61. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Mulisch, Harry, 1927- Zaak 40/61. English. Criminal case 40/61, the trial of Adolf Eichmann. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2005 (OCoLC)607611150 |
| ISBN |
0812238613 (alk. paper) |
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9780812238617 (alk. paper) |
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