Vom Gast zum Gastwirt? Türkische Arbeitswelten in West-Berlin By Stefan Zeppenfeld. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2021. Pp. 430. Hardback €39.00. ISBN: 978-3835350229.

strong racial stock. The latter charge ironically came partly from their reading of Arendt’s careless comments concerning Jewish councils. And Arab writers agreed that Israel exploited the Holocaust in order to hide its own crimes. These charges have their true believers and scholarly apologists to this day. Indeed, Michael Berkowitz’s essay in the volume debunks, yet again, the notion of a Zionist-Nazi alliance, an idea fueled in part by Eichmann’s insistence at trial that he admired Zionist aims and tried to further them. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan’s essay on 1960s student movements in West Germany and the U.S. might be the volume’s most open-ended. For the New Left, which misread Arendt’s thesis of Eichmann’s unthinking banality, “Eichmann” became the architype for the postcolonial perpetrator of racist and imperialist crimes ranging from the American South to Vietnam – the ubiquitous petit bourgeois servant of atrocity reborn in the bureaucracy. Problems with this assessment were many. One was that this universalization of “Eichmann” was never applied to communist societies where the apparatchiks were more in keeping with Arendt’s conceptions of totalitarianism. Another was that, for protest movements, Eichmann’s crimes were divorced from their essential core, namely the destruction of Europe’s Jews. Stripped of their specificity, they could be applied willy-nilly, including against Israel, an expanding bête noire of the global left. Together, the essays in Wittmann’s fine volume reflect the long reach of the Eichmann trial. Yet ironically, they also reflect the persistent reach of Arendt’s reading of the trial, for Arendt’s assessment, flawed though it was, influenced and still influences how the Jerusalem proceedings were understood in everything from international law to postmodern assessments of power. In that sense, the essays reflect that Eichmann’s ashes, though scattered at sea after his execution in 1962, were scatted further than the Israelis ever intended. His trial is truly one without end.