Get Eichmann – Israel’s Hunt For A Nazi War Criminal - Part 3

About this episode

The episode discusses Israel's capture of Adolf Eichmann and the surrounding controversy, including the defense strategy by his lawyer and Hannah Arendt's reflections on evil.

In the summer of 1960, all eyes are on Israel. As the Jewish nation unveils its capture of Adolf Eichmann to the world, a bitter controversy swirls around the notorious SS officer. Eichmann’s lawyer, Dr. Robert Servatius, scrambles to cobble together a defense strategy and save his client from the noose. In Jerusalem, journalist and scholar Hannah Arendt wrestles with questions about the nature of evil. SOURCES: Aharoni, Zvi. Dietl, Wilhelm. Operation Eichmann: Pursuit and Capture. 1997. Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann In Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. 1963. Bascomb, Neal. Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World’s Most Notorious Nazi. 2009. Bergman, Ronen. Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations. 2018. Charles Rivers Editors. The Mossad. 2019. Charles Rivers Editors. Germany and the Cold War. 2018. Charles Rivers Editors. Israel’s Most Legendary Operations. 2018. Goni, Uki. The Real Odessa: How Nazi War Criminals Escaped Europe. 2003. Fairweather, Jack. The Prosecutor: One Man’s Batlle to Bring Nazis to Justice. 2025. Hourly History. The Nuremberg Trials. 2020. Lipstadt, Deborah. The…

Topics covered

• Adolf Eichmann
• Israel
• Nazi War Criminals
• Hannah Arendt
• Nature of Evil

Keywords

• Eichmann Trial
• SS officer
• Jerusalem
• defense strategy
• controversy

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Eichmann In Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Hunting Eichmann, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted, The Real Odessa: How Nazi War Criminals Escaped Europe

Places: Israel, Jerusalem, Germany, Palestine

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