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Portrait of Hannah Arendt

Barbara Niggl Radloff · CC BY-SA 4.0

Hannah Arendt

1906 – 1975aged 69

Escaped Nazi Germany and then spent her life on the question of how ordinary people enable atrocity. The Origins of Totalitarianism mapped the machinery; her report on the Eichmann trial coined "the banality of evil" and cost her many friendships.

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