Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I Eichmann on Trial
6. 1 Coming to Terms with the “Banality of Evil”: Implications of the Eichmann Trial for Social Scientific Research on Perpetrator Behaviour 19
7. 2 From History to Story: When the “Architect” of the Holocaust Became His Own “Witness” 32
8. 3 Revisiting Eichmann and Zionism: Contexts, Strange Encounters, and Their Afterlives 50
9. PART II Eichmann and Jurisprudence
10. 4 Prosecuting “Crimes against the Jewish People”: The Eichmann Trial and the History of a Legal Concept 75
11. 5 The Eichmann Trial: Towards a Jurisprudence of Victims as Eyewitnesses to Genocide 104
12. 6 What Makes a Prosecution an International Landmark Trial? Reflections on the Tensions between Legal Proceedings, Politics, and Historical Facts 122
13. PART III Eichmann and Geopolitics
14. 7 The Eichmann Trial’s Impact Reconsidered 153
15. 8 The Eichmann Trial and the Relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and Israel: A Positive or Negative Influence? 169
16. 9 The Impact of the Eichmann Trial on Relations between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany 190
17. 10 The Impact of the Eichmann Affair on Arab Holocaust Discourse 207
18. PART IV Representing Eichmann
19. 11 Remaking Eichmann: Memories of Mass Murder and the Transatlantic Student Movements of the 1960s 231
20. 12 From 2-Inch to YouTube: The Audiovisual Documentation and Broadcast of the Eichmann Trial 253
21. Contributors 267