Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963) by Hannah Arendt is her report on the Eichmann trial, arguing that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was not a monster but a thoughtless bureaucrat—introducing the concept of the 'banality of evil.'
Introduced the 'banality of evil' concept; one of the most important works on totalitarianism and the psychology of evil.
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