Category Archives: Genocide

The story of Adolf Eichmann

By Andres Kabel | Published: May 1, 2009

Israel kidnapped Nazi Adolf Eichmann from Argentina in 1960, put him on trial and finally executed him. I read the classic Hannah Arendt book about the trial, and some years ago watched a rivetting documentary abou it. Now The Economist has reviewed a book about the drama of it all. I put Neal Bascomb’s Hunting Eichmann [...]

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A shift in reading

By Andres Kabel | Published: April 3, 2009

It took a couple of bottles of red, shared between two, at a Greek restaurant over lunch, to push me over the line. I caught a tram to Reader’s Feast, one of the superb independent bookshops available in Melbourne, and bought Jonathan Littell’s doorstopper The Kindly Ones. I’ve read so many reviews that exorciate the [...]

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