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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 2001 15(3):428-452; doi:10.1093/hgs/15.3.428
© 2001 by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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The Eichmann Interrogations in Holocaust Historiography

Christian Gerlach

The 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem attracted international attention, and the minutes of his interrogations have been used widely as a documentary source. "Intentionalists" have claimed they prove an early central order for the Holocaust; "functionalists" have taken them as evidence for the bureaucratic and possibly nonideological character of perpetrators. Unfortunately, limitations on the value of the interrogations as a source render both approaches problematic. The following article reconsiders the significance of perpetrators' retrospective accounts by reconstructing Eichmann's strategies of legal defense and self-justification as a context for his numerous and varied autobiographical statements.


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