Miles Mercer examines the 1961 Adolf Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, where 111 Holocaust survivors testified against the Nazi bureaucrat. The episode explores prosecutor Gideon Hausner's groundbreaking strategy, the controversial glass booth, and challenges Hannah Arendt's famous "banality of evil" thesis. Mercer analyzes how this televised trial transformed global Holocaust consciousness and established survivor testimony as essential to international justice.
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