ScreenShots: Click Here Click Here In 1961| the noted German-American philosopher| Hannah Arendt| gets to report on the trial of the notorious Nazi war criminal| Adolf Eichmann. While observing the
legal proceedings| the Holocaust survivor concludes that Eichmann was not a simple monster| but an ordinary man who had thoughtlessly buried his conscience through
his obedience to the Nazi regime and its ideology. Arendt's expansion of this idea| presented in the articles for "New Yorker"| would create the concept of "the
banality of evil" that she thought even sucked in some Jewish leaders of the era into unwittingly participating in the Holocaust. The result is a bitter public
controversy in which Arendt is accused of blaming the Holocaust's victims. Now that strong willed intellectual is forced to defend her daringly innovative ideas
about moral complexity in a struggle that will exact a heavy personal cost.