This book wasn’t quite what I expected, which meant I wasn’t as big of a fan of it. I was personally less interested in the bureaucratic details and legal questions. I wanted to focus more on the question of what Eichmann was guilty of, complicity, and how someone “normal” does evil things. I don’t feel like that was explored all that much ultimately, so I was dissatisfied.

I did learn a lot about the history of these events that I didn’t know before, and I found the political context of the trial interesting to learn about. My book club enjoyed thinking about the culpability of people like Eichmann and the Jewish councils that cooperated in order to try to mitigate the situation.

While the onslaught of detail was a little much for me, I did enjoy gaining a more nuanced picture. I love/hate that learning more about a thing creates more questions than it answers.