Victor Farias is back in the news with a new book on Salvador Allende. Farias was student of Heidegger for a while, and later wrote the most well known anti-Heidegger tome.

[T]he philosopher -- who's been teaching at the Latin America Institute at Berlin's Free University since 1974 -- has caused quite a stir. It isn't the first time he's done so: Farias has a track record of raising controversial issues. In his book "Heidegger und Nationalisozialismus" (Heidegger and National Socialism), Farias uncovered embarrassing and previously unknown information on the most German of the German philosophers, Martin Heidegger.

It is a matter of debate whether Farias uncovered unknown information (ob.cit. Ott), but the information in his book was a revelation to many scholars.

Allende was the socalist president of Chile, killed during Pinochet's coup in 1973. Today he's a hero of leftists everywhere. Farias has uncovered evidence that Allende supported fascism in his younger days, shielded Nazi war criminals, and was an anti-semite--the proof is in Allende's doctoral dissertation.  ¶ 8:51 PM