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Schocken
March 2011
On Sale: March 15, 2011
272 pages
ISBN: 0805242600
EAN: 9780805242607
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Non-Fiction History
The capture of SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann by
Israeli agents in Argentina in May of 1960 and his
subsequent trial in Jerusalem by an Israeli court
electrified the world. The public debate it sparked on
where, how, and by whom Nazi war criminals should be brought
to justice, and the international media coverage of the
trial itself, was a watershed moment in how the civilized
world in general and Holocaust survivors in particular found
the means to deal with the legacy of genocide on a scale
that had never been seen before.
Award-winning historian Deborah E. Lipstadt gives us an
overview of the trial and analyzes the dramatic effect that
the survivors’ courtroom testimony—which was itself not
without controversy—had on a world that had until then
regularly commemorated the Holocaust but never fully
understood what the millions who died and the hundreds of
thousands who managed to survive had actually experienced.
As the world continues to confront the ongoing reality of
genocide and ponder the fate of those who survive it, this
trial of the century, which has become a touchstone for
judicial proceedings throughout the world, offers a legal,
moral, and political framework for coming to terms with
unfathomable evil. Lipstadt infuses a gripping narrative
with historical perspective and contemporary urgency.
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