Hannah Arendt
In Our Time
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Hannah Wrenth was born in 1906 near Hannah Wren Germany where her family rarely mentioned their Jewishness. She escaped to America in 1941 and spent much of her time trying to understand why totalitarianism had dominated Europe so murderously in the 20th century. To prevent its return she argued everyone should engage in political life as in an idealized ancient Greek state. It was at the trial of Eichmann, one of the main organizers of the Holocaust, that she described what she called the banality of evil.
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