# Adolf Eichmann Topic: [[Topics/Hannah Arendt/Hannah Arendt|Hannah Arendt]] · People in this topic are listed on the hub. - **Who:** SS officer who organized the deportation of Europe's Jews; captured in Argentina in 1960, tried in Jerusalem in 1961 and hanged in 1962 ◻. ## Role in this topic - The case behind the lecture: "Some years ago, reporting the trial of Eichmann in Jerusalem, I spoke of 'the banality of evil'" ([lecture PDF](https://cooperative-individualism.org/arendt-hannah_thinking-and-moral-considerations-1971-autumn.pdf)). - In Argentina he gave the Nazi journalist Willem Sassen long interviews; *Life* ran excerpts on Nov 28 and Dec 5, 1960 ([Bard Arendt Center](https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/excerpts-from-the-sassen-papers-2013-07-12)). See [[Topics/Hannah Arendt/The Eichmann Debate|The Eichmann Debate]].