Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Dedication ; Table of Contents ; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: The Eichmann fires; Direction; Reading Arendt; 2. The House of Judgment; Law and theatre; Show trial; 3. The gray zone: Kapo trials; Kapo: function and role; Liberation and community honour courts; Trials in Israel; 4. The accused; Jurisdiction; The abduction of the defendant; The retrospectivity of Israeli law; 5. From expulsion to extermination; The rise of Nazism; Objective language and double speak; Resistance to immoral law; 6. Wannsee: The enabling conference.

Pontius PilateRace laws; 7. Duties of a law-abiding citizen; The authority of law; Eichmann contra Kant; 8. The deportation chapters; Anti-Jewish legislation; Legal status and national identity; Infiltration and control; 9. Did Eichmann receive a fair trial?; The criminal trial; Credentials of a liberal trial; Evaluating the trial; 10. Judgment; The District Court and the Supreme Court; Arendt's judgment of Eichmann; 11. Reading Eichmann today; Inverted totalitarianism; Israel-Palestine; 12. The last Nazi trials and forgiveness; Current Nazi trials; Arendt on forgiveness.

Truth, reconciliation and the transitionAppendix; Bibliography; Index.