Eichmann Before Jerusalem

Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer (German: Eichmann vor Jerusalem – Das unbehelligte Leben eines Massenmörders) is a book by Bettina Stangneth originally published in German in 2011. An edition in English appeared in 2014.^[1]

Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer

First edition
Author	Bettina Stangneth
Original title	Eichmann vor Jerusalem – Das unbehelligte Leben eines Massenmörders
Translator	Ruth Martin
Language	German
Subject	Holocaust, psychology, human behavior
Published	2011
Publisher	Arche-Verlag
Publication place	Switzerland
ISBN	978-3-7160-2669-4

The work challenges Hannah Arendt's portrayal of Adolf Eichmann in Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil as an unintelligent and thoughtless bureaucrat. Stangneth shows that Eichmann's actions were the results of intentional, well-thought-out decisions of a man who strongly subscribed to Nazi ideology and who took pride in his actions.^[2][3][4][5]