33.2 The Specialist, Hannah Arendt And The Banality Of Evil

I sent my friend Dave Kinnaman Hanna Arendt’s famous book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Study in the Banality of Evil. Dave became so engrossed in Arendt’s history of the Holocaust and her philosophy of murder that I then sent him an Israeli documentary of the Eichmann’s trial called The Specialist by director Eyal Sivan. Using original footage of the trial, Sivan reconstructs Arendt’s arguments of why the trial was a failure though it still rendered justice, and through her work she constructed a theory of how the Shoah occurred. Join Dave and I as we sift through the darkest part of the 20th Century using Sivan’s sly masterpiece of truth and Arendt’s arresting idea that the worst mass murderers use droll paperwork instead of bullets. Works Cited Hanna Arendt Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil The Origins of Totalitarianism On Revolution The Human Condition On Violence Films The Specialist (1999) Eyal Sivan Eichmann (2009) Robert Young Operation Finale (2018) Christ Weitz The Eichmann Show (1961) Paul Andrew Williams Hanna Arendt (2012) Margarethe von Trotta The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996) William A Graham The Trial of Adolf Eichmann (1997) Michael Prazan Operation Eichamann (1961) R. G. Springsteen The Devil Speaks (2022) Yariv Mozer Other Books The Desk Killers, by Dan Gretton On Killing, by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by its Perpetrators and Bystanders, by Ernst Klee You can find me, my books, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com.