Hitlers Bureaucrats The Nazi Security Police And The Banality Of Evil Lozowick by Lozowick, Yaacov 9780826465375, 0826465374 instant download after payment.

Annotation. As director of the archives at Yad Vasham, Yaacov Lozowick has had ample opportunity to reflect on Arendt's much-discussed thesis, and he refutes it conclusively in Hitler's Bureaucrats, demonstrating beyond a shadow of a doubt that Eichmann and his colleagues sincerely believed Jews to be subhuman and conspired with malice aforethought to wipe them off the face of the earth. Considered solely as a piece of historical scholarship, Hitler's Bureaucrats is an impeccable piece of work... It is his moral analysis of the 'banality of evil' argument that lay readers will find most compelling."--Book Magazine, July/August 2002 As a perpetuator of the Final Solution, Adolf Eichmann stands alongside Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler as one of history's most notorious murderers, yet ever since Hannah Arendt's seminal book, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, there has been disagreement about the essence of Eichmann and, by extension, about the definition of evil action. Was he a human monster or a petty bureaucrat? To what degree did the totalitarian organization to which he belonged absolve him and his staff from individual choice and responsibility for atrocities? Hitler's Bureaucrats looks at the words and actions of Eichmann. It claims that Hannah Arendt's thesis about the banality of evil was wrong. In chilling detail, it presents a group of people completely aware of what they were doing, people with high ideological motivation, people of initiative and dexterity who contributed far beyond what was necessary.