<p>Political theorist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt" title="Hannah Arendt">Hannah Arendt</a>, a Jew who fled Germany after Hitler's rise to power, reported on Eichmann's trial for <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></em>. In <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem" title="Eichmann in Jerusalem">Eichmann in Jerusalem</a></em>, a book formed by this reporting, Arendt details the conclusion of several Israeli psychiatrists that Eichmann was "normal." She called him the embodiment of the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banality_of_evil" title="Banality of evil">Banality of Evil</a>", as he appeared at his trial to have an ordinary and common personality, displaying neither guilt nor hatred. She suggested that this most strikingly discredits the idea that the Nazi criminals were manifestly <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy" title="Psychopathy">psychopathic</a> and different from ordinary people. Eichmann himself said he joined the SS not because he agreed with its ethos, but to build a career.<sup id="cite_ref-57"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span>[</span>58<span>]</span></a></sup></p>