The Eichmann tapes and the comforting myth of the 'banality of evil'
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The banality of evil. Hannah Arendt's famous observation during the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the ‘architect of the Holocaust.’ There's new evidence that Eichmann's evil was anything but banal. Yariv Mozer and Bettina Stangneth join Meghna Chakrabarti.
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| 0:19.1 | On April 11, 1961, Adolf Eichmann stepped into a glass |
| 0:24.2 | defendant's box and stood trial in Jerusalem. |
| 0:28.0 | The trial was broadcast on television |
| 0:30.1 | with simultaneous translation from Hebrew and German |
| 0:33.6 | into multiple languages, including English. |
| 0:36.9 | The proceedings commenced. |
| 0:38.8 | Prziding Judge Moshe Landau began reading the 15 counts |
| 0:42.9 | in the indictment against Eichmann. |
| 0:45.4 | There are cures together with others during the period 1939 |
| 0:49.0 | to 1945 caused the killing of millions of Jews |
| 0:53.4 | in his capacity as the person responsible |
| 0:55.9 | for the execution of the Nazi plan |
| 0:58.6 | for the physical extermination of the Jews, |
| 1:01.4 | known as the final solution of the Jewish problem. |
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