No romance could be stranger than the clandestine affair between the Jewish anti-fascist Hannah Arendt and the Nazi philosopher Martin Heidegger - and yet it spanned more than forty years, from their first meeting as student and teacher in 1930s Germany, ‘till Heidegger’s death in 1976.
As a teacher at Freiburg, when he first met the intense, 19 year old Heidegger was the superstar of the German University. His lectures were so demanding that his cult followers would debate their meaning into the small hours. The brilliant young Jewess, from a family of leftists, immediately aroused suspicion amongst the cult, but Heidegger embarked on an intellectually and emotionally intense affair behind his wife Elfride’s back.
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