Banality of Evil, or Banalität des Bösen

 

The banality of the torture of Irena Sendler?

The film did not dare reveal what was done to her, nor the truth of how she happened to survive: shoddy, without a bullet to the head.

Basic reference: Ernst Klee, Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich, Frankfurt 2007.

The execution of Zuzzana Ginzburg  may have been simpler.

   see: Zuzanna Ginczanka or Zuzanna Polina Gincburg or Susanna Ginzburg

The notion of banality was well-established with Heidegger long before his SA enthusiasms and his reunion with Arendt.

Compare: Hannah Arendt on Walter Benjamin and Stefan Zweig, the suicides.

   A suicide of a less than banal psychopath: Theodor Dannecker (Camp de Drancy and other.)

  Never interviewed by Arendt as "journalist": Alois Brunner.

  Never trained as social scientist: Hannah Arendt.  Never trained as philosopher: her second husband, the buffoon of Bard.  The end of the tradition of philosopher Hermann Cohen's Marburg: Heidegger mocking philosopher Ernst Cassirer* at Davos.

For a Heidegger, what could be more banal than the death met by Afra Geiger?

Was the world reading the words of Heidegger as a phrase "coined" by Arendt?

See Dresden HAIT.

* whose work gave us Susanne Langer
Note: there is a Paul-Natorp-Strasse in Marburg an der Lahn, but no Hermann-Cohen-Weg.
Sehe: Landkreis Marburg-Biedenkopf
Sehe: Marburg marks the location of the Synagogue of the Middle Ages.
Sehe: the 19th Century Synagogue in Marburg burning on Kristallnacht.

My testimony: 1985, one plaque for Hermann Cohen at the old University; one plaque for "fellow citizens who FELL in the war"; no sign of the great synagogue or the missing Jews or any indication on any home that it had been the home of a Jew in during the 1938 pogrom.
Compare:  mezuzah found on the doorposts of peasant houses in Poland in filming "Shoah".
Missing: Judengasse, Marburg, Hessen.
Present: a great many American tourists for Grimm Brothers and the Elizabeth Church.

Facts: one bomb fell in the railyards of Marburg causing one death, but all handicapped and mentally ill murdered; no data on citizen or boys lost among troops, youth troops or SA members or other.  But note activity to deny wrong-doing in 1949 at the Uni-Marburg on visit by Niemoeller.

Story of note: Erich Frank, a death in Amsterdam, 1945.

Today:
Jüdische Gemeinde Marburg
Liebigstr. 21A, 35037 Marburg, Germany
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http://gcjz-marburg.de
http://www.jg-marburg.de/eng/cooperation.htm
http://www.landsynagoge-roth.de/
http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/marburg_synagoge.htm