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fferent treatments of Adolf Eichmann, most famously by Hannah Arendt in her Hichmann in Jerusalem: A report on the banality of evil. (1963, New York, Viking Press). Arendt’s perspective on Eichmann as an ordinary gentleman who simply followed orders has been seriously challenged, suggesting that he was anything

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