Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann managed to live a peaceful and active exile in Argentina for years before his capture by the Mossad. Though once widely known by nicknames such as 'Manager of the Holocaust', he was able to portray himself, from the defendant's box in Jerusalem in 1960.

A reassessment of the life of Adolf Eichmann, which reveals his activities and notoriety following the collapse of the Third Reich. Stangneth refutes Hannah Arendt's notion of the 'banality of evil', reopening the debate around Eichmann.