Showing posts with label Ernst Klee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ernst Klee. Show all posts
Sunday, June 12, 2011
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
+49 6421/407430
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
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Ernst Klee's Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich
The University of Minnesota has its own Holocaust documents but the state of Minnesota has no copy of Ernst Klee's Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich in any of its libraries listed on the internet.
In the Martin and Elfride Heidegger letters there is his 19450614 in which he mentions Hugo Friedrich in connection with Paul Valéry (who died later that summer in Paris on July 20, 1945.)
Documents on Hugo Friedrich tend to pass over his 1937 appointment and his arrest by the occupying French. If you have a comment to clarify, please post it. It was not until 1957 that he was called to the Academy.
The journalist Ernst Klee's publications made it impossible to continue the "whitewash" of the 1950's particularly in regard to the medical profession and the NSDAP. Re-examination of the reopening of German universities and the reestablishment of their autonomy has only occurred later. Those teaching law, political science and history may have been more of a concern in 1945 and 1946. The international reputation of an institution out-weighed issues of individual culpability. Compare the reestablishment of medical careers and academic careers and the role of secondary centers such as Tubingen and Marburg. Compare the initial assignment to Ricoeur in France.
Hugo Friedrich was very close to Hannah Arendt and Benno von Wiese during their student days in Heidelberg. Benno von Wiese was allowed to continue teaching based on a written declaration which he was required to submit.
On Hugo Friedrich: his arrest is mentioned by both Hugo Ott and Rüdiger Safranski.
See records on requisitioning of homes of collaborators by the French military occupation authority.
Cf: Steven P. Remy, The Heidelberg Myth
In the Martin and Elfride Heidegger letters there is his 19450614 in which he mentions Hugo Friedrich in connection with Paul Valéry (who died later that summer in Paris on July 20, 1945.)
Documents on Hugo Friedrich tend to pass over his 1937 appointment and his arrest by the occupying French. If you have a comment to clarify, please post it. It was not until 1957 that he was called to the Academy.
The journalist Ernst Klee's publications made it impossible to continue the "whitewash" of the 1950's particularly in regard to the medical profession and the NSDAP. Re-examination of the reopening of German universities and the reestablishment of their autonomy has only occurred later. Those teaching law, political science and history may have been more of a concern in 1945 and 1946. The international reputation of an institution out-weighed issues of individual culpability. Compare the reestablishment of medical careers and academic careers and the role of secondary centers such as Tubingen and Marburg. Compare the initial assignment to Ricoeur in France.
Hugo Friedrich was very close to Hannah Arendt and Benno von Wiese during their student days in Heidelberg. Benno von Wiese was allowed to continue teaching based on a written declaration which he was required to submit.
On Hugo Friedrich: his arrest is mentioned by both Hugo Ott and Rüdiger Safranski.
See records on requisitioning of homes of collaborators by the French military occupation authority.
Cf: Steven P. Remy, The Heidelberg Myth
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