In Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt portrays a man as medical and legal concepts fail to define it as "abnormal". Adolf Eichmann is a man "like us". And in this sense, it is a part of our humanity which is found sitting next to the accused. This is the ability of our justice system to convict "normal" individuals is questioned. But this book is also a history-against the classic story of the Holocaust. Indeed, Jews, and especially their leaders, were actively involved in the deportation of their people. How a people he was able to participate on its own extermination? Therefore, what the Israeli court judge Eichmann is it particularly incompetent to condemn? Finally, the banality of evil does not it puts all of us in front of his own guilt?
