Criminal Case 40/61, The Trial Of Adolf Eichmann
Subtitle: An Eyewitness Account (Personal Takes)
Contributors: Deborah Dwork (Foreword); Robert Naborn (Translator)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: April 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780812238617
Subjects: Crime & criminology; The Holocaust; Press coverage; Holocaust; Eichmann, Adolf,; True Crime / Espionage; History; Other Miscellaneous Crimes; History: World; Europe; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); 1906-1962; Trials (Genocide); War crime trials; Jerusalem; Netherlands
First sentence: "40/61" is the number of the Eichmann case on the roll of the District Court of Jerusalem.
Description: "Under a deceptively simple lable, "criminal case 40/61," the trial of Adolf Eichmann began in 1961. Mulisch modestly called his book on case 40/61 a report, and it is certainly that, as he gives firsthand accounts of the trial and its key players and scenes (the defendant's face strangely asymmetric and riddled by tics, his speech absurdly baroque). Eichmann's character comes out in his incessant bureaucratizing and calculating, as well as in his grandiose visions of himself as a Pontius Pilate-like innocent. As Mulisch intersperses his dispatches from Jerusalem with meditative accounts of a divided and ruined Berlin, an eerily rebuilt Warsaw, and a visit to the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann emerges as a disturbing and highly personal essay on the Nazi extermination of European Jews and on the human capacity to commit evil ever more efficiently in an age of technological advancement."--Jacket.