Abstract
Some contemporary observers of Israel’s 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann linked the proceedings in Jerusalem to the Allied war crime trials that took place in Nuremberg between 1945 and 1949. Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion called the Eichmann trial the “Nuremberg of the Jewish people,”¹ while the political philosopher Hannah Arendt considered it “the last of the numerous Successor trials which followed the Nuremberg Trials.”² That both Ben-Gurion and Arendt, whose worldview and overall stance on the Eichmann trial were diametrically opposed, nevertheless saw a direct link between Nuremberg and Jerusalem raises the question: What were the historical ties between