Hannah Arendt

was a jewish-german-american political theorist who left Germany and emigrated to the USA during the Nazi-regime. After being strongly influenced by Heidegger, Jaspers, Husserl and Bultmann during her studies, Arendt dedicated her own work to political theory. Her central work “The origins of Totalitarianism” philosophically deals with the historical experiences made during the second world war, such as the holocaust and Stalinist communism.