Personal responsibility under totalitarian regimes

<p class="Abstract">After witnessing the Eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt realized that it is a misconception that the occurrence of international crimes (and radical evil) mostly implicates the work of people with evil motives. For this reason, she developed a new form of crimi...

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Autor principal:	Tamar de Waal
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Publicado:	Amsterdam Law Forum 2012
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f2fdfdf6b5f642ec9200c328c379ae922021-12-02T02:51:24ZPersonal responsibility under totalitarian regimes1876-8156https://doaj.org/article/f2fdfdf6b5f642ec9200c328c379ae922012-02-01T00:00:00Zhttp://ojs.ubvu.vu.nl/alf/article/view/256https://doaj.org/toc/1876-8156<p class="Abstract">After witnessing the Eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt realized that it is a misconception that the occurrence of international crimes (and radical evil) mostly implicates the work of people with evil motives. For this reason, she developed a new form of criminal liability that falls between the two forms of liability of traditional criminal law. By analyzing and emphasizing the role of the ‘hanger-on’ criminal, Arendt got convinced that, when international crimes take place, besides evil intentions or culpable negligence, also <em>thoughtlessness</em> should establish personal criminal liability for them, as when evil occurs without reflection upon it, it can spread limitlessly. Within this theory, each person participating in a bureaucratic institution that is part of a totalitarian regime should be held personally responsible. Although never implemented in practice, this way of reasoning is an interesting contribution to the thinking on international criminal law.</p>Tamar de WaalAmsterdam Law ForumarticleHannah Arendtpersonal responsibilitytotalitarianismradical and banal evilthoughtlessnessLawKENAmsterdam Law Forum, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 131-142 (2012)
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description	<p class="Abstract">After witnessing the Eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt realized that it is a misconception that the occurrence of international crimes (and radical evil) mostly implicates the work of people with evil motives. For this reason, she developed a new form of criminal liability that falls between the two forms of liability of traditional criminal law. By analyzing and emphasizing the role of the ‘hanger-on’ criminal, Arendt got convinced that, when international crimes take place, besides evil intentions or culpable negligence, also <em>thoughtlessness</em> should establish personal criminal liability for them, as when evil occurs without reflection upon it, it can spread limitlessly. Within this theory, each person participating in a bureaucratic institution that is part of a totalitarian regime should be held personally responsible. Although never implemented in practice, this way of reasoning is an interesting contribution to the thinking on international criminal law.</p>
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Personal responsibility under totalitarian regimes

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