Arendt

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

On 03.12.2013 02:31, Joseph Tracy wrote:

 > She was accused of nasty stuff when she wrote about Eichmann and 
Jewish leaders who collaborated with nazis. No one discredited her 
information, only her willingness to disclose these things about people 
who were fundamentally victims.<

This information like others she got from Raul Hilberg's pioneer study 
"The Destruction of the European Jews". Actually Arendt borrowed a lot 
from Hilberg without giving adequate credit, which made him, especially 
since she had academically evaluated against his project, furious for 
the rest of his life. Even at the conference in Germany he attended a 
couple of weeks before his death this led to a little scandal. After 
someone had asked about Arendt, Hilberg said "Ich hasse diese Frau!" (I 
hate this woman) and then completely freaked out. After that the 
conference was over although additional panels had been planed.

A good article on their difficult relation can be found here:
http://www.thenation.com/article/conscious-pariah?page=0,0

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