Language:
German
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Trumah
Angaben zur Quelle:
5 (1996) 93-111
Keywords:
Jaspers, Karl,
;
Holocaust (Christian theology)
Abstract:
Describes the influence on Jaspers of close Jewish friends and especially of his wife, Gertrud Mayer. Jaspers opposed nationalism, whether German or Jewish, and even during and after the Nazi period refused to recognize any dichotomy between the German and Jewish components of the German-Jewish identity. He resisted Nazi pressure to divorce his wife and was consequently forbidden to teach; both were in danger of deportation. In a speech in 1945, he spoke of "our indelible shame and infamy" because "when our Jewish friends were taken away we did not go out on the street to cry out until we too were massacred". Also discusses Jewish influences on his philosophy.
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