Becoming Eichmann: Rethinking the Life, Crimes and Trial of a Desk Murderer

Becoming Eichmann, the first account of Eichmanns life to appear in over forty years, reveals a surprising portrait of the man once seen as epitomizing the banality of evil. Drawing on recently unearthed documents, David Cesarani explores Eichmanns early career, when he learned how to become an administrator of genocide, and shows how Eichmann developed into the Reichs expert on Jewish matters, becoming ever more hateful and brutal. This sobering account deepens our understanding and challenges our preconceptions of Adolf Eichmann and offers fresh insights into both the operation of the Final Solution and its most notorious perpetrator.