Eichmann in Jerusalem

give her the stature of being considered one of the 20th centuries greatest thinkers. Her works focus was on power in politics, authorities, direct democracies, and totalitarianism. Emphasis has been given to her work published in the New Yorker on Eichmann trial due to the controversial phrase “Banality of Evil” that means a belief that a person’s behavior is not considered evil if that behavior has been normalized by the current society in which they reside. With the intention of shedding light on

In 1932, Jennes conducted one of the earliest conformity experiments. Jennes took 101 psychology students, divided them into groups of three, and asked them to work together to estimate how many beans were in a glass bottle that contained 811 white beans. The students would come up with their own individual answer and then after discussing it with the group, would have the opportunity to change their answer. Jennes discovered that nearly all of the students had chosen to change their answers after

they weren’t going to get it back. It became a matter of survival and way to fight for their former independence. Just like the French people lost their governmental independence, people can lose their ethical independence. When people like Adolf Eichmann surrendered their mind to Nazi authority, he gave up his freedom. He didn’t resist. Even though he didn’t hold a high position in the Nazi bureaucracy, he had an impactful role of oppressing others. Surrendering his mind to the Nazis is extremely

In the article “The Milgram-Holocaust linkage: challenging the present consensus” attention is drawn to the parallels between Milgram’s experiments, and crime committed by Adolf Eichmann; a Nazi bureaucrat, who was on trial at Nuremburg (Russell Gregory 1). The article quotes Hannah Ardent affirming that Eichmann was “neither perverted nor sadistic” he was in fact “terribly and terrifying normal” (Russell Gregory 1). This supports Milgram’s observation that normal people can carry out terrible

The act of killing (2012) is the first documentary piece in Joshua Oppenheimer’s duology on the Indonesian killings, and is possibly one of the most stylishly disturbing documentaries ever made. The film follows retired gangsters who were hired by the Indonesian government to persecute - most likely kill - anyone who opposed to the military dictatorship at the time. The director Joshua asked them to recreate their past masochistic killings for a movie of whichever genre they’d produce. The documentary

place sometime during the 1960s after the Second World War. Some Germans would rather forget it ever happened than acknowledge the disgraceful events that took place during World War II “Adolf Eichmann's trial began on April 11, 1961 in Jerusalem, Israel. Eichmann was

Let’s set the scene,you come from a loving suburban family living in a nice neighborhood where barely any danger occurs. The family consists of your father, your mother, you and your younger sister. One day you arrive home and something is off, your sister hasn’t come home from school and your parents are panicking. They decided to call the cops. Days pass and there is still no sign of your sister. Finally a week and a half passes and the body finally turns up. The autopsy finds seman samples on

Crime takes place all the time and it is America’s duty to ensure that these criminals are properly punished for their wrongdoings. With rehabilitation, one can not ensure that if given a second chance the criminal will not offend again. We need to confront crime with a proper punishment and that is where retribution comes in. With retribution society appears more secure and crimes of violence decrease. Since it is essential to control violence in society, retribution is essential. Retribution should

Obedience is defined as “Compliance with an order, request, or law or submission to another’s authority” (“Obedience”). In 1963, Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at the University of Yale, conducted an experiment to examine the effects of authority. The Obedience to Authority has become one of the most renowned psychological experiments to date. Milgram explains how seemingly normal individuals, could be driven to commit inhumane acts. Furthermore he outlines substantial parallels between his experiments

How did Justice Robert Jackson frame the difficulties of doing justice at Nuremberg? Justice Robert Jackson was faced with a number of difficulties when he was tasked with the job as the US justice at Nuremberg. He faced the daunting task of trying to bring justice to over a decade’s worth of crimes and wars, which spanned and entire continent, in one tribunal. Before the proceedings began he knew many of the challenges he would have to overcome and that he would have a difficult road ahead