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The Eichmann Trial
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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Summary
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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- neville
- 04-12-18
Audio Book was OK but narrator woeful
The story is a good tale and very interesting in many ways, but what drove me absolutely mad was how, every time the narrator, Walter Dixon, quoted someone (which was very often), he paused and you could imagine him making an inverted comma sign in the air before he continued. These short but frequent breaks ruined the flow of the book for me. Caveat emptor!
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- OL
- 01-06-21
A superb analysis
Deborah Lipstadt is at her best, a superb account of Eaichmann's detection, abduction and conviction. Woven into her narrative is a surgical examination of Hannah Ahrendt's account exposing its flaws and weaknesses.
I'm disappointed that the narrator of a book written by a woman is in fact a man, especially as he can't pronounce Auschwitz and Lodz. But he does an adequate job in other respects.
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- Mary Carnegie
- 06-03-16
Evil is often banal, never magnificent
Mistake to have a bloke as narrator. I admire Lipstadt for her stand against the obnoxious pseudo-historian, David Irving, a "scholar" without even a first degree, a/c his publicity lack of cash, but unlikely since he'd been funded through a second rate fee-paying boarding school.
Lipstadt is arrogantly American with all the naiveté and moralistic judgments of those educated in a new, narrow, introverted system.
Understanding history needs a broader learning and wider sympathy if you venture to make universal judgment...
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- Tamaz
- 08-06-24
Disappointing
I was expecting this to be a great book. It was going to detail the Eichmann trial, and this was the woman who took down David Irving.
However what was seriously disappointing was the attacks on Wiesenthal for his mentioning people other than Jews died in death camps. Lipstadt is right that on purely racial grounds Jews were the prime target, and biggest single group, but there is no contextual need for her to try and minimalize those who were rounded up to be murdered on other grounds. The first people to be murdered in a program were the disabled, T4 started as soon as Germany invaded Poland. There is no need for the book to emphasise Jews over those people, or Roma and LGBTQ+ people. Those people were killed on how they were born too.
I did not finish the book, her attitude to others killed threw serious doubt on what was to follow as far as accuracy was concerned.
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