Hitler's Bureaucrats: The Nazi Security Police and the Banality of Evil

By Yaacov Lozowick

Book Overview

For many the name of Adolf Eichmann is synonymous with the Nazi murder of six million Jews. As a perpetuator of the Final Solution he stands alongside Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler as one of history's most notorious murderers, yet ever since Hannah Arendt's seminal book, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, there has been disagreement about the essence of Eichmann and, by extension, about the definition of evil action. Was he a human monster or a petty bureaucrat? To what degree did the totalitarian organization to which he belonged absolve him and his staff from individual choice and responsibility for atrocities?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826457118
• ISBN13: 9780826457110
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.5"