Overrated and underestimated: Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962)

About the anthology

Was SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann one of those centrally responsible for the Holocaust or a “buffoon of outrageous stupidity”? No other Nazi perpetrator was overestimated and underestimated almost simultaneously after 1945. Beyond the clichés, this volume takes stock of Eichmann’s activities up to 1945, his hiding, his discovery and capture in Argentina, the trial before the Jerusalem District Court in 1961, the public reactions and the trials of Nazi perpetrators at the time.