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Hannah Arendt was born on October 14th, 1906 in Hanover, Germany. Though Arendt was Jewish, her family was secular and quite invested in assimilation to German society, so this identity did not become important to her until the rise of antisemitism and the Third Reich in her young-adult years.

After finishing school, Arendt went to the University of Marburg, where she studied philosophy under Martin Heidegger.

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She had a very close romantic relationship with Heidegger, who would eventually come to support the Nazi Party.

Arendt later moved to Berlin, but was barred from continuing her research within the academy due to her Jewish heritage.

She nevertheless continued to research antisemitism while in Berlin, until she was briefly arrested by the Gestapo in 1933. After this she moved around Europe before settling in Paris. In Paris she met Walter Benjamin, a Marxist intellectual about whom she would later write a b