Adolf Eichmann

Lipstadt's account provides a behind-the-scenes historical window to proceedings that riveted millions and revealed the evil behind the actions of Nazi Adolph Eichmann, chief operational officer of Hitler's Final Solution.

Probably most famous for her searing comments in a report on nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann and the banality of evil, she was also one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century about totalitarian political and social systems, responses to totalitarianism, and the trajectory of human rights in democratic states.

Central to Burg's book is his discussion of the trial of Adolph Eichmann, the Nazi war criminal who was arrested in Argentina in 1960 and subsequently tried in Jerusalem as one of the chief architects of the "Final Solution".

Asked to recall some of the more notorious evil-doers from the Second World War, many people would likely think of Adolph Eichmann.

She also says that documents substantiate that the CIA knew the pseudonym and location of the famously malignant Holocaust manager Adolph Eichmann as early as 1958, but did not provide the information to Israel, which had been seeking him since shortly after the war.

While the author devotes space to scores of these murderers, he zeroes in especially on the escape modes used by Erich Priebke, Josef Schwammberger, Josef Mengele, and Adolph Eichmann.

DECEMBER 15 Adolph Eichmann is sentenced to die for his part in the Jewish Holocaust

Just think of Hannah Arendt's meditation 50 years ago on the fact that the Nazi death-camp administrator, Adolph Eichmann, was apparently the most respectable kind of family man.