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 ...

Fifty years after her death, the German-born political thinker has been enshrined as a prophet for our times. What did she actually say? By Jennifer Szalai Robert Jay Lifton changed how I think about ...

Adolf Eichmann declared under oath today, to a tense and rapt court: “I regard the extermination of the Jews as the gravest crime in human history.” The statement came after he first refused to answer ...

Adolf Eichmann, one of the key architects of the Holocaust, was captured by Mossad agents on May 11, 1960, in Argentina and flown to Israel for trial. Originally born in Solingen, Germany, Eichmann ...

The capture and trial of Nazi SS officer Adolf Eichmann, one of the major masterminds behind the Holocaust, is not a story that everyone would feel comfortable putting on the big screen. Films that ...

Plans for the annihilation of 11,000,000 Jews in Europe– the entire Jewish population of Europe from England to Russia and from Portugal to Rumania–were mapped out at the notorious “Wansee Conference” ...

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 ...