Abstract
Eichmann Before Jerusalem is, of course, a titular homage to Hannah Arendt's work Eichmann in Jerusalem. Bettina Stangneth seeks to tell the rest of the story—who Eichmann was, what he did, how he survived in hiding after the war. Interestingly, she also tries to reconstruct how he thought of himself. While she succeeds remarkably on the former queries, her explanation on the last perhaps assumes too much. Any author who spends years with original material, as Stangneth did after the discovery of a previously unknown cache of documents and notes Eichmann produced while living in Argentina (p. xx), is bound to come to believe he or she is privy to the subject's inner thoughts and motives.