Robert Jay Lifton changed how I think about the world and about my family. By M. Gessen In “The Prosecutor,” Jack Fairweather tells the story of Fritz Bauer, the German jurist who helped find Eichmann ...

On May 23, 1960, then- Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion stood at the podium in the Knesset and solemnly said: “A short time ago one of the most notorious Nazi war criminals, Adolf Eichmann, was ...

It seems a stretch to think of Adolf Eichmann as having had an “unexamined life.” Since his 1960 trial in Israel, and Hannah Arendt’s controversial 1963 account, “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on ...

Adolf Eichmann declared under oath today, to a tense and rapt court: “I regard the extermination of the Jews as the gravest crime in human history.” The statement came after he first refused to answer ...

“If we had killed 10.3 million Jews I would say with satisfaction, ‘Good, we destroyed an enemy.’ Then we would have fulfilled our mission. And thus, to my regret, it was not to be.” An ...

Holocaust survivors often refer to the "banality of evil" when describing how remarkably ordinary even the highest-ranking Nazis seemed after their capture for aiding the mass murder of more than 6 ...

Rafi Eitan, the leader of the Israeli spy team that captured Holocaust mastermind Adolph Eichmann in a daring operation 59 years ago, died on Saturday. He was 92. A Tel Aviv hospital announced Eitan’s ...

“It was well known that there was at least one strong Jewish underground unit that had been working ceaselessly since the end of the war in all parts of the world, tracking down Nazi war criminals who ...

In 1960, Nazi official Adolph Eichmann was captured in Argentina by Israeli agents and put on trial. Newly released information shows the CIA knew Eichmann's whereabouts at least two years earlier. He ...

Adolf Eichmann took the stand in his own defense today against charges of master-minding the wholesale slaughter of 6,000,000 European Jews. He began the presentation of a well-rehearsed version of ...

In a telling scene in “Operation Finale” — the new blockbuster dramatization of Israel’s 1960 capture of Nazi architect of the Final Solution Adolf Eichmann — Mossad operatives are in a bar, drinking, ...

In “The Prosecutor,” Jack Fairweather tells the story of Fritz Bauer, the German jurist who helped find Eichmann in Argentina and brought Auschwitz guards to justice. By Gary J. Bass The Israeli ...