# Banality of Evil |  | Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the **Banality of evil** is a 1963 book by the philosopher and political thinker Hannah Arendt. Arendt, a Jew who fled Germany during Adolf Hitler's rise to power, reported on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust, for The New Yorker. A revised and enlarged edition was published in 1964. | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | wikipedia:: [Eichmann in Jerusalem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem) | by:: [[Hannah Arendt]] [[My Lai massacre]] [[World War II]] [[Adolf Hitler]] [[Adolf Eichmann]] [[Vietnam]] [[Nuremberg defense]] [[Milgram experiment]] [[Stanford prison experiment]] [[Little Eichmanns]]