Kessel, Eichmann and Evil

In The Judges, the remarkable great report, recently re-edited, which he devoted to the Eichmann trial in 1961, the writer and journalist Joseph Kessel seeks to understand the infamous Nazi civil servant and, hence, the tragedy to which he contributed his effective and mortific contribution. The concept of " banality of evil", forged by Hannah Arendt following the trial of the Nazi civil servant Adolf Eichmann in 1961, has always seemed particul…