... Arendt wrote for the German language newspaper Aufbau1 and directed research for the Commission on European Jewish Cultural Reconstruction. In 1944, she began work on what would become her first major political book, The Origins of Totalitarianism. It was not until 1963, a number of years since the end of the War and the Holocaust, when through a secret operation devised by the then newly formed Israeli Government, intended to capture the Nazi known as Adolf Eichmann who had fled to Argentina. Eichmann was considered to be one of the many Nazi's who sent countless people to their death in the Nazi Death Camps, and was wanted by the Israeli Government to stand trial for the devastating War Crimes which he committed. When Eichmann was taken captive in Argentina by agents of the Israeli government and brought to trial in Jerusalem, Arendt was fascinated by Eichmann and saw this as ...

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