# Deborah Lipstadt Topic: [[Topics/Hannah Arendt/Hannah Arendt|Hannah Arendt]] · People in this topic are listed on the hub. - **Who:** American historian of the Holocaust; author of *The Eichmann Trial* (2011). ## Role in this topic - The memoir "reveals the degree to which Arendt was wrong about Eichmann. It is permeated with expressions of support for and full comprehension of Nazi ideology. He was no clerk." (quoted in [NYT](https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/misreading-hannah-arendts-eichmann-in-jerusalem/)). Book not read directly ⚠️.