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Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann: An Eyewitness Account
The trial of Adolf Eichmann began in 1961 under a deceptively simple label, "criminal case 40/61." Hannah Arendt covered the trial for the "New Yorker" magazine and recorded her observations in "Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Banality of Evil." Harry Mulisch was also assigned to cover the trial for a Dutch news weekly. Arendt would later say in her book's preface that Mulisch...more
Hardcover, 208 pages
Published
April 26th 2005
by University of Pennsylvania Press
(first published March 1962)
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Nadat ik gisteren de film van Margaretha von Trotta Hannah Arendt had gezien heb ik vandaag dit boek van Harry Mulisch gelezen. Het leest (maar dat is een ongepaste beeldspraak) als een trein. Zeker als je de beelden van de rechtszaal met Eichmann in zijn glazen kooi nog vers in het geheugen hebt gaat het verslag van het proces leven als geschiedde het gisteren.
Eichmann, de ambtenaar die slechts bevelen opvolgde. Als de rechter hem opgedragen had om zichzelf te verhangen dan zou hij dit gedaan h...more
Eichmann, de ambtenaar die slechts bevelen opvolgde. Als de rechter hem opgedragen had om zichzelf te verhangen dan zou hij dit gedaan h...more
First of all Mulisch is a wonderful writer and I really like his style.
The Criminal Case are short 'stories' about his experience when he visited the trial of Eichmann
in the early sixties. The part about the trial itself reads like you are in the courtroom as well. He describes
the atmosphere of not only the trial but of new founded country Israel in a very good way. It was a nice alternation of the
heavy subject as the Holocaust itself.
In the second part of the book Mulisch writes his thoughts...more
The Criminal Case are short 'stories' about his experience when he visited the trial of Eichmann
in the early sixties. The part about the trial itself reads like you are in the courtroom as well. He describes
the atmosphere of not only the trial but of new founded country Israel in a very good way. It was a nice alternation of the
heavy subject as the Holocaust itself.
In the second part of the book Mulisch writes his thoughts...more
Der niederländische Schriftsteller Harry Mulisch berihctet 1961 über den Prozess gegen Adolf eIchmann in Jersualem. Auch wenn mir die Deutungen Mulischs oft zu platt sind, bettet er seine Erlebnisse gut ein in Beschreibungen Israels. Interessanter sind dann die Beobachtungen, die Mulisch in Berlin macht, das er 1961 besucht als er eine zeitlang dem Prozess in Jerusalem entflieht. Er beschreibt das heutige Gelände der Topographie des Terrors, das heutige Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz und ein Haus in...more
Pretty tough read, with eye-witness accounts and plenty of photographs of the nazi death camps and descriptions from survivors of the holocaust.
One of the most impressive reports in Dutch literary journalism. Mulisch at his best.
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Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch along with W.F. Hermans and Gerard Reve, is considered one of the "Great Three" of Dutch postwar literature. He has written novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections.
Mulisch was born in Haarlem and has lived in Amsterdam since 1958, following the death of his father in 1957. Mulisch's father was from Austria-Hungary and emigrated to the Netherlands after...more
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Mulisch was born in Haarlem and has lived in Amsterdam since 1958, following the death of his father in 1957. Mulisch's father was from Austria-Hungary and emigrated to the Netherlands after...more
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