
Hannah Arendt’s ”The Origins of Totalitarianism” (Part 2/6)
Theory & Philosophy
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The Dryfus Affair
jewish people were viewed then as just being naturally, through their race, just being naturally traitors. And that leaves the only solution, of course, to be extermination, which is where this eventually culminated for jewish people and for gay people. In chapter four we will finally discuss the dryfus affair in 18 94 when alfred dryfus was accused and found guilty of being a german spy. He was sentenced to exile on devil's island in northeast south america. After about ten years, he was acquitted, but unofficially, he was only acquitted by a kind of review board of what had gone on. Obviously, it encouraged anti semitism, but it also
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