Eichmann, Bureaucracy and the Holocaust

✍ Scribed by Stonehouse, Jonathan

• Book ID: 107090195
• Publisher: J P Stonehouse
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 50 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Was Eichmann really the 'monster' alleged by many? Was he the evil genius behind the Final Solution, second in importance only to Himmler and Hitler himself? Or was Eichmann a distinctly average and psychologically 'normal' individual whose actions can be better explained and understood in terms of his modest rank, social milieu and the systems, processes and procedures utilised to prosecute the Holocaust? Drawing on source material from his interrogation and trial, "Eichmann, Bureaucracy and the Holocaust" is a sociological analysis of Eichmann's actual documented role within the context of Max Weber's work on bureaucracy and Zygmunt Bauman's "Modernity and the Holocaust". The unsettling conclusion is that modern methods of bureaucratic organisation may have contributed to Eichmann's moral blindness and that the Holocaust itself can be seen as a product of modernity and civilisation, rather than its failure.