In George Orwell’s 1984, the totalitarian government the Party has a process of rewriting history and destroying evidence of what was previously true, in order to control what the truth is and what the public knows to keep them under the control of the Party. One instance of this is when Winston, whose job is to submit possible versions of the rewrites, accidentally finds photographic evidence of three executed thought-criminals that directly contradicts the Party’s statement about their crimes. Winston realizes, “There was only one possible conclusion: the confessions were lies… But this was concrete evidence; it was a fragment of the abolished past… It was enough to blow the Party to atoms, if in some way it could have been published to the world and its significance made known,” (Orwell, 80-81). If that evidence of falsified history was released and believed by people, it could shatter the Party’s control over the public once they realize how much they’ve been lied to. But because the Party has such a strong hold over everything, Winston just destroys it out of fear, allowing the Party to continue shaping the truth to their whim. The level of rewriting and control the Party exerts over its nation is very extreme, but the way the Party bends the rules and structures that they put into place themselves when it benefits them the most is something that real life governments are guilty of doing at times to achieve their personal goals. In Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hanna Arendt discusses Eichmann’s trial and she takes a moment to focus on the specifics of Eichmann’s arrest and how it was technically a kidnapping. Arendt said, “[while] neither the prosecution nor the judges ever admitted that the kidnapping had been an ‘act of state,’ they did not deny it either. They argued that the breach of international law concerned only the states of Argentina and Israel, not the rights of the defendant,” (Arendt, 239). By saying that the violated international laws had nothing to do with the defendant’s rights, and both nations subsequently saying they were okay with the violation, Israel was able to move forward with the trial. The two nations managed to bend the rules to achieve their goal of Eichmann’s trial, which in itself isn’t bad, it shows how current governments aren’t afraid to violate their own or international laws when it suits them.