Deborah E. Lipstadt
The Eichmann trial
Schocken Books Inc

The capture of SS Adolf Eichmann by Israeli agents in Argentina in May of 1960 and his subsequent trial in Tel Aviv 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, is recognized as 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. In The Eichmann Trial, award- winning historian Lipstadt gives us an overview of the trial and analyzes the dramatic effect that the testimony of survivors in a court of law had on a world that had until then regularly commemorated the Holocaust but never fully understood the millions who died and the hundreds of thousands who managed to survive. This is a penetrating and authoritative dissection of a landmark case and its after effects.