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The Shadow of Heidegger
The Shadow of Heidegger
Rainer hated the disorder of the Weimar Republic. He hated the corrupt and mediocre politicians, its unions in the hands of bolshevism, the Jewish financiers and that cloudy absence of identity, that obscene cosmopolitanism. One had to return to the soil and blood, he said. And whenever he talked of the contaminated cities, of overcrowding, of the plague, of inauthenticity, of the space where being was forgotten and men gave themselves over to luxury of lower entities, the modes of money and sex, one word, the word that signaled a city, left his mouth with the violence of a gob of spit: Berlin.[Next]
I did not know Berlin.
Rainer took me and he did not avoid saying that the trip would be to the depths of Hell. No one knew -- and this had been so for two years -- of Hannah. He knew, and he told me, that the Professor had "discarded her", casting her off to study with Jaspers. Circumstances that had caused, for my friend, an unexpected suffering: not seeing her again. Just once, chewing his words with anger, he confessed he'd have to look for her. That, he said, "that Jew" would not escape him. At the time it did not surprise me, the callous more than indifferent way with which Rainer said "that Jew". The absence or the fleeing or the abandonment of Hannah detonated in him a suffocated inner presence: his anti-Semitism. He hated, like all his comrades in the SA, the Jews. I did not share that hate.
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his anti-Semitism. He hated, like all his comrades in the SA, the Jews. I did not share that hate.
German vets tended to blame the jews for WWI, reparations, loss of territory, the rise of the bolsheviks, etc.--and the SA--ie early nazis-- was comprised of many vets (along with some labor types--at least until the "long knives").
In reality the situation was a bit more complex--the Versailles treaty itself was hardly just organized by the "zionists" (though for some of the working class germans--or infantry vets--Britain and France were considered "zionist"...).
One might argue the VT was not adequate--and many wanted to just let the germans off (including mystery man JM Keynes). That said, the british bankers --who was it the Glimmer twins?-- could be said to share part of the blame, and many of them were (are)...jewish.
Say what you will about Clemenceau--Le Tigre!--he called WWII. With inadequate controls/monitors on arms manufacturing, the Wehrmacht was already preparing in early 30s--and UK and USA were completely aware of it; indeed Winnie was blessing Hitler--and Il Duce-- until what '39 or so (once they broke the deal with Poland, via panzer divisions).
So Churchill and Chamberlain let the beast grow uncontrolled...exactly what Le Tigre had said would happen by not allowing France to monitor the arms industry in the Ruhr and Frankfurt area.
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German vets tended to blame the jews for WWI, reparations, loss of territory, the rise of the bolsheviks, etc.--and the SA--ie early nazis-- was comprised of many vets (along with some labor types--at least until the "long knives").
In reality the situation was a bit more complex--the Versailles treaty itself was hardly just organized by the "zionists" (though for some of the working class germans--or infantry vets--Britain and France were considered "zionist"...).
One might argue the VT was not adequate--and many wanted to just let the germans off (including mystery man JM Keynes). That said, the british bankers --who was it the Glimmer twins?-- could be said to share part of the blame, and many of them were (are)...jewish.
Say what you will about Clemenceau--Le Tigre!--he called WWII. With inadequate controls/monitors on arms manufacturing, the Wehrmacht was already preparing in early 30s--and UK and USA were completely aware of it; indeed Winnie was blessing Hitler--and Il Duce-- until what '39 or so (once they broke the deal with Poland, via panzer divisions).
So Churchill and Chamberlain let the beast grow uncontrolled...exactly what Le Tigre had said would happen by not allowing France to monitor the arms industry in the Ruhr and Frankfurt area.
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