In 1960, Israel announced that it had arrested Adolf Eichmann, a former high-ranking Nazi German official and known as the "death executor," and he was tried in Jerusalem in 1961. The famous Jewish female philosopher Hannah Arendt, who has lived in the United States for many years, was invited by The New Yorker to write for the trial. When she went to Jerusalem to watch the trial, she found a disagreement between Eichmann's statement, public opinion, and her own philosophical thinking. When she raised Eichmann's behavior to a philosophical level, her articles unsurprisingly triggered criticism and criticism in the society, and some of her old friends even broke off ties with her. The most proud female student under Heidegger's school tried to retreat in the storm, but found that everything was not as simple as she had expected.
Hannah Arendt movie plot
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Hannah Arendt quotes
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Mary McCarthy: Every time I even write a sex scene, I have you horribly on my conscious - as if you're talking to my elbow saying: stop!
Hannah Arendt: I have no problem with sex.
Mary McCarthy: I'm afraid you'll think I'm an exhibitionist or something.
Hannah Arendt: Well, you are.
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Hannah Arendt: I had the opportunity to spend some time in a French detention camp called Gurs.
Female Student: But, weren't the French on your side?
Hannah Arendt: In the beginning. They took us in. But when the Germans invaded France on May 10, 1940, our French friends put us into detention camps. We became a new kind of human being, put into concentration camps by our enemies and into detention camps by our friends.