# David Cesarani Topic: [[Topics/Hannah Arendt/Hannah Arendt|Hannah Arendt]] · People in this topic are listed on the hub. - **Who:** British historian (1956–2015 ◻); author of *Becoming Eichmann* (2004 UK; Berkowitz cites it as 2006 ◻). ## Role in this topic - "as much as we may want Eichmann to be a psychotic individual and thus unlike us, he was not", but "It is a myth that Eichmann unthinkingly followed orders, as Hannah Arendt argued" (quoted in [NYT](https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/misreading-hannah-arendts-eichmann-in-jerusalem/)).