The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered

"This excellent collection of essays revisits the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann from disciplinary perspectives ranging from law to history to psychology to film studies."

Norman J.W. Goda, University of Florida, Central European History

“By offering multifaceted views on the former aspects, the volume does an excellent job in summarizing an ever more complex subject of Holocaust studies.” Thomas Kühne, Clark University German Studies Review

"This groundbreaking collection will importantly serve to liberate the canonic Eichmann trial from the monopolistic control exerted by Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem. We come away from Wittmann’s volume with a fresh appreciation and an enriched understanding of the preeminent trial to address the crimes of the Holocaust."

Lawrence R. Douglas, James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College

"This must-read book concerns an event that was significant in its own right and remains a touchstone of debate over the weightiest matters: the Holocaust, the motivation of perpetrators of genocide, and the functions of the law in politics and in coming to terms with mass atrocity. Substantial but not bulky, intelligent but accessible, Rebecca Wittmann’s excellent volume brings together a range of perspectives by a fine cast of scholars."

Donald Bloxham, Richard Pares Professor of European History, University of Edinburgh