The phrase "the banality of evil"was used to describe an architect of this event in Hannah Arendt's work about his 1961 trial, Eichmann inJerusalem.
Zygmunt Bauman considered this event as an expression of modernity. Raul Hilberg wrote acomprehensive historical treatment of it. Christopher Browning's Ordinary Men examined the role ofPolice Battalion 101 in this event, which Arno Mayer controversially argued was centrally aboutcommunism. This event inspired the theory of logotherapy developed in Man's Search for Meaningby Viktor (*) Frankl, who sought to reintegrate its victims into society. The phrase "the banality of evil"was used to describe an architect of this event in Hannah Arendt's work about his 1961 trial, Eichmann inJerusalem. For 10 points, identify this campaign of mass genocide inflicted by the government of AdolfHitler.
Zygmunt Bauman considered this event as an expression of modernity.
The Holocaust [or Shoah; accept reasonable equivalents like Final Solution; prompt on "World War II"]