Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Arendt and the Two Escapes

I have been able to find no mention of any documentation of the reports that Arendt escaped Gestapo custody twice: first in Berlin in 1933 and then in France in 1939 (the camp of the Gurs.)

Once is miraculous.  Twice should have invited someone to look for some documentation.  Are we to believe that the captors wanted no record of their bungling?

There is a document said to be the list of deportees to round up which we are told bears Karl Jaspers name and that of his wife Gertrud (what is the explanation of how she escaped so long - who did Jaspers know who provided this protection or this exception?  Jaspers had not served in WWI.  What was her exemption?)

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