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Walter Benjamin

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Benamin, a German, Was in a Real Danger

Benjamin was living and working under from the nates in germany. What happened to him when war broke out? He stayed together with all these other people for about ten days, having to sleep on the ground. There was hardly any any roof. Even the diet was incredibly poor. And another younger man who was there with benyamin at the time describes in very moving terms how ben yamincu sat there on a bench, almost not moving for days.

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