Language:
German
Year of publication:
2013
Titel der Quelle:
Merkur; deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken
Angaben zur Quelle:
67,7 (2013) 573-588
Keywords:
Arendt, Hannah,
;
Eichmann, Adolf,
;
War crime trials
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Law
Abstract:
Views Hanna Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem (1964) as a revision of the Eichmann trial. As such, it tests the borders of justice, and attemps to show that the Eichmann trial did just that. Arendt wants to show that judicial "inconsistency" that resulted from the legal vacuum the Nazi crimes placed justice as such in, was the consequence of the questioning of Law in principle. The judges of the Eichmann trial unknowingly drew this consequence in sentencing Eichmann to death. Arendt suggests that the judges did not understand how right they were when they did this, placing themselves beyond the law. Quotes Arendt, who writes that the Eichmann case forces you to take the Law into ones own hands and break it.
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