Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

>I've read at least two articles authored by historians that thought this book was full of factual errors and misunderstandings. Feel free to provide these citations if you dislike the book >It may be good read, but don't expect the book to be fair or truthful. It's creative nonfiction -- a literary telling of a factual event. And no one is required to be "fair" to anyone, especially Nazis. Some things don't have "both sides".

Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police https://search.worldcat.org/title/39256274 This book going into extreme detail about the East German surveillance state. People tend to hyperfocus on the Nazis due to a morbid fascination with bodycounts, but the GDR was closer in time in both history and comopositions. They had faxes, computers, and many other technologies that made them similar to us, and I worry we forget the lessons of that regime. I read his book during a middle school in school suspension and it was a formative read. Another good book is "Eichman in Jerusalem", which details the trial of one of the architects of the Holocaust and his claims he was "just following orders... the book examines the "banality of evil". https://search.worldcat.org/title/385389 Finally, to lighten things up, my most recent new favorite book that's fiction was Convenience Store Woman, about a woman who's been working at a 7/11 for 18 years. I read it during COVID and it's stuck with me as a favorite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convenience_Store_Woman

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt. Makes you look at work so differently. We aspire to do our best work, but what if the outcome of the work on the world is adding up to it becoming a worse place?