Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing12 reviews James Waller Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 How a society's conscience becomes corrupted + How Insanity Happens + Very Interesting + Excellent theoretical model + A complete, in depth analysis of extraordinary evil             The Specialist - Portrait of a Modern Criminal7 reviews Adolf Eichmann Kino International, 2002 Compelling AV evidence supporting Arendt's thesis, BUT... + The Specialist + It is more than it seems + The Mediocrity of Evil             The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness13 reviews Erich Fromm Holt Paperbacks, 1992 Definitely, Fromm's Masterpiece!!! + The Hobo Philosopher + Human Nature Defined - For Those Daring Enough to Look + Great Analysis of Trying to Understanding Suicide Bombers and the like             Obedience to Authority22 reviews Stanley Milgram, 1983 Disturbing Insights About Humanity + Freedom is Slavery and oxymorons of human nature + Must read for Psych students + Fascinating.....a must read! + Obedience to Authority             Crimes of Obedience: Toward a Social Psychology of Authority and Responsibility1 review V. Lee Hamilton, Herbert Kelman Yale University Press, 1990 What About Crimes of Authority? Although I studied Professor Kelman's books on International Psychology in graduate school and continue to hold him and his work in high regard, I was disappointed in the point of view taken in this book. As advertised, the book deals with the consequences that often ensue when authorities give ...             Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities3 reviews Martha Knisely Huggins, Mika Haritos-Fatouros, ... University of California Press, 2002 Police Torturers Examined An outstanding book, that took courage to put together-- telling with credibility and compassion about the torture to which the Brazilian police & military subjected citizens whom they saw as on the "wrong" side politically. The authors bring to light an evil we thought went out of fashion with the ...             Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann: An Eyewitness Account (Personal Takes) Harry Mulisch University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005 Under a deceptively simple label, "criminal case 40/61," the trial of Adolf Eichmann began in 1961. Hannah Arendt covered the trial for the New Yorker magazine and recorded her observations in Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Banality of Evil . Harry Mulisch was also assigned to cover the trial for a Dutch news weekly. Arendt would later say in her book's preface that Mulisch was one of the few ...             Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil46 reviews Hannah Arendt Penguin Classics, 1994 Best Non-Fiction Book of the 20th Century? + A book about the Holocaust still relevant + Report of Banality of Evil and Poor Human performance + Eichmann in??             The "Goldhagen Effect": History, Memory, Nazism--Facing the German Past (Social History, Popular Culture, and ... University of Michigan Press, 2000 Stepping back from the immediate controversy surrounding the merits and shortcomings of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners, this edited volume intervenes in the continuing discussion by exploring aspects of the public's reception to Goldhagen's book--what the authors call the "Goldhagen Effect." The first essay, by Omer Bartov, examines the extent to which the book's ...             Torture: A Collection3 reviews Oxford University Press, USA, 2004 Torture from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib + Questions on Torture? Read this! + Excellent resource Torture A Collection, by Sanford Levinson (book review) Sanford Levinson the editor has been and is an eloquent voice against torture and his intention in drawing together this collection is clearly to educate and raise awareness of a difficult subject to think about let alone put into written ...             The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt and The Final Solution Bernard J. Bergen Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1998 This highly original book is the first to explore the political and philosophical consequences of Hannah Arendt's concept of the banality of evil, a term she used to describe Adolph Eichmann, architect of the Nazi final solution. According to Bernard J. Bergen, the questions that preoccupied Arendt were the meaning and significance of the Nazi genocide to our modern times. As Bergen describes ...             Hitler's Bureaucrats: The Nazi Security Police and the Banality of Evil1 review Yaacov Lozowick, Haim Watzman Continuum, 2002 Desktop murderers It is an excellent exploration on the actions, the dynamics and the moral choices of desktop murderers. The book aims to criticize a concept posited by Hannah Arendt, the banality of evil. It is impressive in the quality of the documents and testimony chosen to expose the inner working of the ...             Facing the Glass Booth: The Jerusalem Trial of Adolf Eichmann Haim Gouri, Michael Swirsky Wayne State University Press, 2004 When Adolf Eichmann stood trial in Jerusalem in 1961, Israel and the rest of the world experienced a reaction unlike any other produced by proceedings against a Nazi war criminal. Although some details about the Holocaust were generally known by the early sixties, the painful topic had slipped from public discussion as countries touched by World War II moved on to other pressing matters. Among ...             Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland54 reviews Christopher R. Browning Harper Perennial, 1993 Not for the faint of heart, or the weak of stomach! + Ordinary Men is a grisly look at a German killing squad implementing the Final Solution in Poland + Frightfully banal + Excellent             The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib9 reviews Cambridge University Press, 2005 The Torture Papers:Road to Abu Ghraib + An Extremely Timely Resource + EXCELLENT RESOURCE FOR ANYBODY WHO WANTS TO UNDERSTAND THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION + The Torture Papers + Making Men Scream in Our Name             Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust201 reviews Daniel Jonah Goldhagen Vintage, 1997 A Study That Can't Be Ignored -- but the Kindle Version Needs Work + Extraordinary! A novel approach to the Holocaust brings to the forum a whole new set of interpretations of this fateful event. "Hitler's Willing Executioners" is without doubt a highly important work that no one wishing to understand 20th-century history can afford to ignore. In this review, however, I will focus on the Kindle version. The Kindle version has significant problems. First, the footnotes are not linked ...             The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide29 reviews Robert Jay Lifton Basic Books, 2000 In our own time... + Making sense of the Holocaust + An Enduringly Important Book + "Physician, Heal Thyself" The Nazi Doctor and the Holocaust + Fascinating             On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society162 reviews Dave Grossman Back Bay Books, 1996 An eye opening read + on combat + Must read for the military or police. + Good but the second book is much better             The Man Who Shocked The World: The Life And Legacy Of Stanley Milgram10 reviews Thomas Blass Basic Books, 2004 A fascinating book about a fascinating man. + A fascinating read + One of My Favorite Researchers + To shock or not to shock             Mass Atrocity, Ordinary Evil, and Hannah Arendt: Criminal Consciousness in Argentina's Dirty War Mark J. Osiel Yale University Press, 2001 Is it possible that the soldiers of mass atrocities - Adolph Eichmann in Nazi Germany and Alfredo Astiz in Argentina's "Dirty War", for example - act under conditions that prevent them from recognising their crimes? In the aftermath of catastrophic, state-sponsored mass murder, how are criminal courts to respond to those who either gave or carried out the military orders that seem unequivocally ...