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Hannah Arendt described the
stony figure in her 1963 work,
Eichrnann in Jerusalem: A Report
on the Banality of Evil, launching a
debate that continues to this day as
to whether Eichmann was a cog in
the Nazi machine or a true believer
in genocidal anti-Semitism.
The guilty verdict was pro-
nounced in December 1961, and
Eichmann was hanged on May
31, 1962 — the only judicial
execution ever carried out in Israel.
Eichmann's ashes were scattered in
the Mediterranean Sea.
Even once Eichmann was gone,
the impact of the trial and its cov-
erage continued. With so many
German journalists in Israel, reports
about life in the young Jewish state
abounded. An era of exchange
began.
And the obvious fairness of the
trial — Eichmann had a German
lawyer and obviously was not being
tortured — "looked like justice,
not revenge Stangneth said. "This
also had an impact on the image of
Israel. One can say that Israel came
a little bit closer to Germany"
The trial also helped Germany
come closer to confronting itself.
Soon afterward, in December
1963, Germany launched its famous
Frankfurt Auschwitz trial, which
lasted through the summer of 1965
and lay out the brutality of former
neighbors and relatives for all to
see.
"The Eichmann trial put the
theme there Stangneth said. "One
could not ignore it." 7
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