Verhaftung adolf eichmann biography book

Skip to Content The Penguin Podcast is back! Listen now. Home David Cesarani Eichmann. Format: Paperback. Amazon Blackwells Bookshop. Adolf Eichmann was responsible for transporting over two million Jews to their deaths in Auschwitz-Birkenau and other death camps. Yet he was an obscure figure until his sensational capture by the Israeli Secret Service in Argentina in and his subsequent trial in Jerusalem.

Title, Die Festnahme des Adolf Eichmann ; Author, Moshe Pearlman ; Condition, good ; Binding type, Hardcover ; Publisher, S. Fischer Verlag.

This is the first account of Eichmann's life to appear since the aftermath of his trial. It is a groundbreaking biography of one of the most fascinating of the Nazi leaders. Drawing on recently unearthed documents, David Cesarani shows how Eichmann became the Nazi Security Service's 'expert' on Jewish matters. He explains how new research demonstrates that the massive ethnic cleansing Eichmann conducted in argues controversially that Eichmann was not necessarily predisposed to mass murder, exploring the remarkable, largely unknown period in Eichmann's career when he learned how to become a perpetrator of genocide.

A powerful and revelatory book. A penetrating and compelling study. Excellent and thorough. A perceptive and intelligent new account - David Cesarani comes closer than anyone to solving the puzzle of what made Eichmann do what he did. Meticulous and admirably balanced. About David Cesarani Learn more.