"In 1960, Adolf Eichmann took the defendant's box in Jerusalem and insisted that he was no "manager of the Holocaust," as his accusers claimed, just a small-time bureaucrat following orders. Like countless others, Hannah Arendt--covering the trials for the New Yorker--believed him. Eichmann before Jerusalem challenges this history for the first time, completely reassessing Eichmann's story and drawing upon a wealth of newly uncovered materials that reveal his great deception, as well as bringing to light shocking truths about Nazis in the post-war world" -- From the back cover.

"My Name Became a Symbol" : The Path into the Public Eye ; The Postwar Career of a Name ; Detested Anonymity -- Interlude : A False Trail in the Middle East -- Eichmann in Argentina : Life in the "Promised Land" ; Home Front ; One Good Turn -- The So-Called Sassen Interviews : Eichmann the Author ; Eichmann in Conversation -- A False Sense of Security -- A Change of Role : Eichmann in Jerusalem -- Aftermath.