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When was Martin Heidegger allowed to teach again after the postwar ban?
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Martin Heidegger
German philosopher of hermeneutics and existentialism Martin Heidegger.
Following the end of World War II in 1945, a university de-Nazification commission found Martin Heidegger guilty of placing his scholarly reputation in the service of the National Socialist Revolution. As a result, he was banned from teaching. This ban was lifted in 1950.1