The mediocrity of evil

It is the reading of the articles of Kessel on the Eichmann trial that gave me the idea to read this mythical book.
The facts first.
SS officer Adolf Eichmann Jewish affairs specialist from the 30's is the logistics of the "Final Solution," that man by whom the death camps were supplied with countless victims. After he fled to Argentina after the war, he was kidnapped in 1960 by the Israeli secret service. A year after his trial began in Jerusalem.
Hannah Arendt, a German Jewish philosopher who was able to flee the Nazis in 1933, following eight months of the trial to the American newspaper "New Yorker".
"Eichmann in Jerusalem" is the report of this extraordinary trial by a journalist just as extraordinary.
The tone at first surprised me. Hannah Arendt has convictions and the loud posters. It criticizes quickly some religious aspects of the young Israeli society.
Its strength is that it remains focused on the action of Eichmann and his environment independently of the emotion aroused by the trial.
That Obscure official death abhors blood, his visits to the camps made him nightmares. He hates sadistic brutes and it's much like Rudolf Hoess, commandant of Auschwitz. The massacres in the east began without him. Once it was question of final solution, he lost interest in his work ...
The sequence of decisions and levels of command is described in a striking manner: even Himmler was disturbed by Hitler's orders! Competition between parallel services fanatical SS and respect for hierarchy explain how all this was possible ...
But the boldest is the open criticism of the Jewish authorities who preferred to negotiate with the SS in the hope of saving lives. Rather than encourage the community to hide and scatter, they have unwittingly facilitated the work of the executioners. We understand better why this book caused a scandal upon its release in 1963!
To return to Eichmann's defense involuntary actor no longer holds when is discussed liquidation of Jewish Communities in Hungary in summer 1944, when his zeal provoked a few weeks hundreds of thousands of new victims while Germany was beaten on all fronts.
This account also mentions the attitude of the Danish and Bulgarian governments, which, though undergoing the Nazis, prevented the SS minions to do their dirty work, removing the French Vichy the argument of duress.
To sum up, "Eichmann in Jerusalem" is the passionate and exciting story of a strong woman, revolted by the Holocaust and refuses easy revenge, we positioned Eichmann as a scapegoat. She seeks the truth and a sense of justice hence the requirement with respect to the court and the state of Israel. Finally she can only observe that the dead many casualties are due to the zeal of an amoral idiot servant, pushy and mediocre, hence the concept of "the banality of evil."
Must book even if it is not always easy to read.