Tikvah
Editors’ Pick

November 11, 2015

Remembering the Historian Who Helped Shatter the Eichmann Myth

Evil, but not so banal.

David Cesarani, a recently deceased historian of the Holocaust and of British Jewry, was among the first to demonstrate, on the basis of the documentary record, the falsity of Hannah Arendt’s depiction of Adolf Eichmann as a “banal” and faceless bureaucrat without ideological investment in Nazism. Jeffrey Herf explains:

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