This book presents you with the background profiles of those mass exterminators of National
Socialism who wound up in court. It pictures their 'route to crime' and explains why their
court room profiles have always remained so controversial in the eyes of post-war observers and
commentators. Both inside and outside academia this controversy continuous to flare up every
now and then. It invariably focusses on Hannah Arendt's famous thesis about the personality of
Adolf Eichmann Hitler's manager of mass destruction. We will take a closer look at the
arguments involved in this 'debate' on the Banality of Evil and see how Arendt's interpretation
of Eichmann relates to the perspectives of the post-war courts who tried other exterminators of
Hitler's empire.
