Hannah Arendt’s authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann includes further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account.
Hannah Arendt (1906-ű1975) came to the U.S. as a refugee from the Nazis in 1940. The Portable Hannah Arendt (Penguin Classics) collects substantial excerpts from her political writings.
Amos Elon, a frequent essayist, lecturer, and critic, is well known for his articles in the New Yorker and New York Review of Books.
Jerome Kohn is the director of the Hannah Arendt Center at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research.
Jonathan Schell is the Harold Willens Peace Fellow at the Nation Institute.
Note to the Reader
The House of Justice
An Expert on the Jewish Question
The First Solution: Expulsion
The Second Solution: Concentration
The Final Solution: Killing
The Wannsee Conference, or Pontius Pilate
Duties of a Law--Abiding Citizen
Deportations from the Reich---Germany, Austria and the Protectorate
Deportations from Western Europe---France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Italy
Deportations, from the Balkans---Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Rumania
Deportations from Central Europe---Hungary and Slovakia