Category: adolf eichmann

+ adolf eichmann, holocaust, mahmoud khalil, Rolf Hochhuth, The Deputy, wannsee conference, world war ii

We Must Not Be Complicit

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On January 20, 1942, high-ranking members of the Nazi party met at Wannsee, right out side of Berlin, to begin the implementation of the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.” Reinhard Heydrich tasked Adolf Eichmann with organizing the conference, since Eichmann was a director of Jewish Affairs. Hannah Arendt, in Eichmann in Jerusalem, describes the discussion of the Wannsee Conference as focusing “first on ‘complicated … Read More We Must Not Be Complicit

+ adolf eichmann, eichmann in jerusalem, hannah arendt, ida b wells, jim crow, world war ii

Accountability and the Banality of Evil

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Ida B. Wells begins Southern Horrors: Lynch law in All Its Phases (1892) by quoting a piece she wrote in the May 21, 1892, edition of the Free Speech, a Black newspaper in Memphis. In the piece, she lists recent acts of racial violence across the United States. She writes, “Eight negroes lynched since last issue of the ‘Free Speech’ one at Little Rock, … Read More Accountability and the Banality of Evil

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