Criminal Case 40/61, The Trial Of Adolf Eichmann

Description

"Under a deceptively simple lable, "criminal case 40/61," the trial of Adolf Eichmann began in 1961. Mulisch modestly called his book on case 40/61 a report, and it is certainly that, as he gives firsthand accounts of the trial and its key players and scenes (the defendant's face strangely asymmetric and riddled by tics, his speech absurdly baroque). Eichmann's character comes out in his incessant bureaucratizing and calculating, as well as in his grandiose visions of himself as a Pontius Pilate-like innocent. As Mulisch intersperses his dispatches from Jerusalem with meditative accounts of a divided and ruined Berlin, an eerily rebuilt Warsaw, and a visit to the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann emerges as a disturbing and highly personal essay on the Nazi extermination of European Jews and on the human capacity to commit evil ever more efficiently in an age of technological advancement."--Jacket.

First Sentence

"40/61" is the number of the Eichmann case on the roll of the District Court of Jerusalem.

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Other Editions

• Strafsache 40/61. Eine Reportage über den Eichmann- Prozeß.PaperbackAufbau Tb2002-01-01
• Criminal Case 40/61, The Trial Of Adolf EichmannHardcoverUniversity of Pennsylvania Press2005-04-30
• Strafsache 40/61Edition Tiamat1987-01-01
• Strafsache 40/61Aufbau Taschenbuch Verlag1996-01-01
• L'Affaire 40/61PaperbackGallimard2003-01-15