Johanna “Hannah” Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 4, 1975) was a German American political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she refused that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular." She described herself instead as a political theorist because her work centers on the fact that "men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world". Arendt's work deals with the nature of power, and the subjects of politics, authority, and totalitarianism.
Arendt was born into a family of secular German Jews in the city of Linden (now part of Hanover), and grew up in Königsberg (the birthplace of Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant, renamed as Kaliningrad and annexed to the Soviet Union in 1946) and Berlin.
At the University of Marburg, she studied philosophy with Martin Heidegger. According to Hans Jonas, her only German-Jewish classmate, Arendt embarked on a long and stormy romantic relationship with Heidegger, for which she was later criticized because of Heidegger's support for the Nazi party when he was rector of Freiburg University.
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Hannah Arendt: You forbid books and you speak of decency.
Hannah Arendt: But isn't it interesting that a man who has done everything a murderous system demanded of him who even hastens to disclose any details about his work, that this man insists on the fact he has nothing against Jews?
Mary McCarthy: [interrupting a German discussion] Whatever you are saying, I agree with all of you.::Hannah Arendt: Everybody, English now, please.
Kurt Blumenfeld: [on Eichmann] And he thinks he is in no way responsible for the fate of the people he had transported?::Hannah Arendt: Yes. It is his vision. He's a bureaucrat.
[last lines]::Hannah Arendt: The whole world is trying to prove that I'm wrong. And no one sees my real mistake. Evil cannot be both ordinary and radical. Evil is always extreme. Never radical. Good is always deep and radical.::Heinrich Blücher: Would you have covered the trial if you knew what was expecting you?::Hannah Arendt: Yes. I would have covered it. Maybe to learn who my real friends are.::Heinrich Blücher: Kurt was your friend and would have remaind such.::Hannah Arendt: Kurt was my family.
Hannah Arendt: You forbid books and you speak of decency.
Hannah Arendt: But isn't it interesting that a man who has done everything a murderous system demanded of him who even hastens to disclose any details about his work, that this man insists on the fact he has nothing against Jews?
Mary McCarthy: [interrupting a German discussion] Whatever you are saying, I agree with all of you.::Hannah Arendt: Everybody, English now, please.
Kurt Blumenfeld: [on Eichmann] And he thinks he is in no way responsible for the fate of the people he had transported?::Hannah Arendt: Yes. It is his vision. He's a bureaucrat.
[last lines]::Hannah Arendt: The whole world is trying to prove that I'm wrong. And no one sees my real mistake. Evil cannot be both ordinary and radical. Evil is always extreme. Never radical. Good is always deep and radical.::Heinrich Blücher: Would you have covered the trial if you knew what was expecting you?::Hannah Arendt: Yes. I would have covered it. Maybe to learn who my real friends are.::Heinrich Blücher: Kurt was your friend and would have remaind such.::Hannah Arendt: Kurt was my family.
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After witnessing the treatment of Jews in Nazi territory made him physically sick, cultured American gentleman Varian Fry starts en emergency rescue commission to raise funds and lobby to help intellectuals and artists, especially Jews, escape from Vichy France -where the Pétain government avoid occupation only by utter collaboration- to the US, and for lack of a better volunteer personally sets out in search of them. First lady Eleanor Roosevelt personally overcomes the reticence of the State Department. In Marseille he finds the people he specifically looked for, such as Marc Chagall, already housed by Harry Bingham, a Jewish US consulate official so he starts screening less obvious candidates and examines with Miriam Davenport and a German social democrat they pass for US clergyman Beamish how some can be rescued legally, others via a clandestine route, while colonel Joubert's State Police is at their trace...
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He changed the world forever. One person at a time. The true story of the American Schindler.