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Of Old and New Nazis

July 4, 2025

In 1961, Hannah Arendt attended the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Nazi bureaucrat of the Holocaust and saw in him the "banality of evil.” And a new novel asks how right-wing hatred arises. Stories of guilt and silence.

Deutschland Essen 2025 | Neonazi-Demonstration der Gruppe "Jung und Stark"
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Trial of a Nazi Criminal

In May 1960, Adolf Eichmann was kidnapped in Buenos Aires by Mossad agents. During the Holocaust, he was responsible for the murder of millions of Jews. This is a story about Nazi hunters, justice, and a trial that shook the world.

 

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“Unter Grund”: Young and right-wing 

A family secret, deafening silence, and the gradual descent into right-wing extremism: Annegret Liepold's novel “Unter Grund” is the story of 16-year-old Franka from provincial southern Germany and how violence emerges secretly and quietly.

 

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