The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered

Rebecca Wittmann is an associate professor of History at the University of Toronto.

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Rebecca Wittmann

Part I: Eichmann on Trial

1. Coming to Terms with the “Banality of Evil”: Implications of the Eichmann Trial for Social Scientific Research on Perpetrator Behavior
James E. Waller

2. From History to Story: When the “Architect” of the Holocaust Became his Own “Witness”
Fabien Théofilakis

3. Revisiting Eichmann and Zionism: Contexts, Strange Encounters, and their Afterlives
Michael Berkowitz

Part II: Eichmann and Jurisprudence

4. Prosecuting “Crimes against the Jewish People”: The Eichmann Trial and the History of a Legal Concept
Laura Jockusch

5. The Eichmann Trial: Toward a Jurisprudence of Eyewitness Testimonies of Atrocity?
Leora Bilsky

6. What Makes a Prosecution an International Landmark Trial? Reflections on the Tensions between Legal Proceedings, Politics, and Historical Facts
Ruth Bettina Birn

Part III: Eichmann and Geopolitics
 
7.The Eichmann Trial's Impact Reconsidered
Boaz Cohen

8. The Eichmann Trial and the Relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and Israel: A Positive or Negative Influence?
Dominique Trimbur

9. The Impact of the Eichmann Trial on Relations between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany
Roni Stauber

10. The Impact of the Eichmann Affair on Arab Holocaust Discourse
Esther Webman

Part IV: Representing Eichmann

11. Remaking Eichmann: Memories of Mass Murder and the Transatlantic Student Movements of the 1960s
Thomas Pegelow Kaplan

12. From 2-Inch to YouTube: The Audiovisual Documentation and the Broadcast of the Eichmann Trial
Liat Benhabib