Martin Heidegger and Nazism
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Philosopher Martin Heidegger joined the Nazi Party on May 1, 1933, ten days after being elected Rector of the University of Freiburg. A year later, in April 1934, he resigned the Rectorship and stoppe
Martin Heidegger c. 1960
The University of Freiburg, where Heidegger was Rector from April 21, 1933, to April 23, 1934
Hermann Staudinger
Edmund Husserl, the man who established the school of phenomenology
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is an antisemitic hoax and forgery purporting to detail a Jewish plot for global domination. Largely plagiarized from several earlier sources, it was first publishe
Martin Heidegger and Nazism
…of Ernst Cassirer claimed she had heard of Heidegger's "inclination to anti-Semitism" by 1929. Farias says that in June 1933, Karl Jaspers criticized The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a propaganda book supporting antisemitic conspiracy theories, and Jaspers recalled much later that Heidegger had responded: "But there is a dangerous…
Cover of the first book edition of The Great Within the Minuscule and Antichrist, in which the Protocols appeared as an appendix
The Book of the Kahal (1869) by Jacob Brafman, in the Russian language original
The frontispiece of a 1912 edition using occult symbols
The Times exposed the Protocols as a forgery on August 16–18, 1921.