Eichmann was one of the major figures in the organization of the Holocaust, and as Hitler's chief logician, he was responsible for the murder of millions.
Sixty years ago today on April 11, 1961, the trial of Eichmann opened before an Israeli Tribunal. But as the trial began, and Arendt was confronted with Eichmann in a glass box, she wrote to her husband, Heinrich Blücher: "The whole thing is so damned banal and indescribably low and repulsive. I don't understand it yet, but it seems to me that the penny will drop at some point, probably in my lap." (continues)
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