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Martin Heidegger
German philosopher of hermeneutics and existentialism Martin Heidegger.
Hannah Arendt, who was Jewish, was forced to flee Germany in 1933 following the Nazi takeover. Her departure occurred in the same year that her former teacher, Martin Heidegger, joined the Nazi Party and began implementing Nazi educational policies as rector of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg.12
Under the Nazi regime, German universities faced intense pressure to eliminate Jewish scholars and doctrines. Arendt fled to Paris to escape the systemic persecution and the rise of totalitarianism that targeted Jewish people. She later became a fugitive again in 1941, eventually immigrating to the United States.21