‘Operation Finale’ (2018): Adolf Eichmann and The Banality of Evil.

Marc Barham
9 min readFeb 2, 2021
Nazi Adolf Eichmann standing in prisoner’s cage during reading of indictment against him at his trial for war crimes, in 1961

The critique of culture is confronted with the last stage in the dialectic of culture and barbarism: to write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric, and that corrodes also the knowledge which expresses why it has become impossible to write poetry today.

— Theodore Adorno

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Marc Barham

Column @ timetravelnexus.com on iconic books, TV shows/films: Time Travel Peregrinations. Reviewed all episodes of ‘Dark’ @ site. https://linktr.ee/marcbarham64