The Palmstroem Syndrome

This book presents you with the background profiles of those mass exterminators of National Socialism who wound up in court. It pictures their route to crime and explains why their court room profiles have always remained so controversial in the eyes of post-war observers and commentators. Both inside and outside academia, this controversy continuous to flare up every now and then. It invariably focusses on Hannah Arendts famous thesis about the personality of Adolf Eichmann, Hitlers manager of mass destruction. We will take a closer look at the arguments involved in this debate on the Banality of Evil and see how Arendts interpretation of Eichmann relates to the perspectives of the post-war courts who tried other exterminators of Hitlers empire.