Authors: Hannah Arendt, Amos Elon
ISBN-13: 9780143039884, ISBN-10: 0143039881
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Date Published: September 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) came to the U.S. as a refugee from the Nazis in 1940. The Portable Hannah Arendt (Penguin Classics) collects substantial excerpts from her political writings.
Amos Elon, a frequent essayist, lecturer, and critic, is well known for his articles in the New Yorker and New York Review of Books.
Jerome Kohn is the director of the Hannah Arendt Center at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research.
Jonathan Schell is the Harold Willens Peace Fellow at the Nation Institute.
Hannah Arendt's authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann includes further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account.
There will be those who wonder how Miss Arendt, after attending the Eichman trial and studying the record and pertinent material, could announce, as she solemnly does in this book, that Eichman was not really a Nazi at heart, that he did really not know Hilter's program when he joined the party, that the Gestapo were helpful to the Jews in Palestinian immigration, that Himmler (Himmler!) had a sense of pity, that the Jewish gas-killing program grew out of Hitler's euthanasia program and that, all in all, Eichmann was really a modest man.-- Books of the Century; New York Times
Note to the Reader | ||
I | The House of Justice | 3 |
II | The Accused | 21 |
III | An Expert on the Jewish Question | 36 |
IV | The First Solution: Expulsion | 56 |
V | The Second Solution: Concentration | 68 |
VI | The Final Solution: Killing | 83 |
VII | The Wannsee Conference, Or Pontius Pilate | 112 |
VIII | Duties of a Law-Abiding Citizen | 135 |
IX | Deportations from the Reich - Germany, Austria, and the Protectorate | 151 |
X | Deportations from Western Europe - France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Italy | 162 |
XI | Deportations from the Balkans - Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Rumania | 181 |
XII | Deportations from Central Europe - Hungary and Slovakia | 194 |
XIII | The Killing Centers in the East | 206 |
XIV | Evidence and Witnesses | 220 |
V | Judgment, Appeal, and Execution | 234 |
Epilogue | 253 | |
Postscript | 280 | |
Bibliography | 299 | |
Index | 304 |