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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Adolf Eichmann"”.
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Adolf Eichmann: a Reappraisal
The purpose of this reappraisal of Adolf Eichmann's character and career is to challenge Hannah Arendt's personification of Adolf Eichmann as a banal bureaucrat, which was presented in her book, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Since the publication of her book in 1963 there …
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HBO and the Holocaust: Conspiracy, the historical film, and public history at Wannsee
… Conference organized by Reinhard Heydrich and Adolf Eichmann. The Conference took place in Berlin on 20 January 1942 and was intended to coordinate the Final Solution by asserting the dominance of Heydrich and the SS over other governmental departments. The surviving Wannsee Protocol stands as …
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War Criminal, Multiculturalism, and Post-war Liberalism in Canada
… including Jacques de Bernonville, Helmut Rauca, Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Imre Finta, Wasily Bogutin, and Serge Kisluk. I argue that Canada’s judicial response to war criminals displays the state’s inconsistent dispensation of justice. This project analyzes the Commission to evaluate how …
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From the Ashes of History: Trauma, National Identity and State-Building in India and Israel
… independence. I argue that the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann augured a shift in this discourse from official repression to what I term ‘victimhood nationalism’, an identity that drew on collective trauma to legitimate the projection of grievances onto Israel’s enemies in the Arab world. The …
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(Re)Presenting Eichmann: One Man, Many Murders
… argues that the act of recording the trial of Adolf Eichmann was an interpretation by director Leo Hurwitz, and that at the time it was recorded, and since then, the material has been used by different actors for different purposes. I examined the use made of that material by six …
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Ethical Vision and Bifocal Writing in the Twentieth Century: Primo Levi, Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin
… in which he theorised the ‘grey zone’; Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, her 1963 study of Adolf Eichmann which led her to ‘the banality of evil’; and Baldwin’s ‘Letter from a Region in My Mind’, his canonical 1962 essay on anti-Black racism in the United States. Levi, Arendt and Baldwin come into …
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The distorted image: German Jewish perceptions of Germans and Germany, 1918-1935
… anti-Semitism was largely campaign rhetoric. Adolf Eichmann used the proverb that many Jews used: “Nothing’s as hot when you eat it as when it's being cooked” (Arendt 39).</p> <p>Such answers to questions about German Jewish reactions to Nazism explain only in part why German Jews did not …