Nazis

During the years that followed, her writing was sporadic and without hope of reaching print. In 1933 she was translating Shakespeare 's Macbeth, bearing in mind how relevant to her present life was its...

In the first of these, RA reverted to an early practice of writing about recent, and threatening, international politics. Waters' Meet opens with Philippa Langford, nearly forty, good-naturedly escorting (as stand-in for a glamorous and...

Her sister, Anna, travelled to occupied Paris later that year, to attempt to collect Laurence's possessions there, and was arrested by the Nazis , but not held prisoner for long. She died on 5 July...

HA was a stateless person from 1933, when she fled from Nazi Germany, until 1951, when she acquired US citizenship.

She later fell in love with her professor, Martin Heidegger , who was passionately attracted by her beauty and by her depth of thinking. This clandestine romance began in 1924, right after Arendt started...

During her first marriage, HA criticised the German women's movement for interesting itself in social, or women's issues without considering the broader political causes and consequences which made them of concern to men as well...

HA arranges her discussion under three headings: anti-Semitism, imperialism, and totalitarianism. Together they compose a bleak picture of current trends: the decline of nation-states and of traditional class alliances, and the rise of anti-Semitism, Nazism

Arendt puts forward several points which many readers found controversial or even unacceptable. As her sub-title makes clear, she does not present Eichmann as a monster, an exception, or a freakishly wicked specimen of the...

EB 's flirtations after Randall Neale included Dr Harold Waller , Count Albrecht Bernstorff (a close friend who was probably killed by the Nazis during the Second World War) and Donald Strathcona .

SB was forced to close Shakespeare and Company , her Paris bookshop, following threats of seizure by the Nazis .

SB was arrested by the Nazis , along with other American women. She was interned for about seven months.

SB 's political activities included steady opposition to France's colonial war in Algeria, and lifelong support for socialism and feminism. Elaine Showalter has written that SB 's feminist credentials stem from her writing, and...

This novel is about moral responsibility for those whom Christianity calls our neighbour, and about the possibility that violence can in certain circumstances be morally acceptable. Each of its two central characters, Jean Blomart and...

The one-hundredth anniversary of SB 's birth, though marked with book publications, a tribute DVD series, and a three-day international symposium, was a controversial occasion. Sharp criticism in the French press centred mostly the...

Writer SB , having fled from Paris when the Nazis occupied it, returned and joined a Resistance network, more than fifty percent of whose members were dead before the end of the war.