Hannah
Arendt was a political philosopher who wrote about political events of the day
throughout her life. Questioned by the Gestapo for researching anti-Semitism in
the early 1930s in Germany, she fled to France where she helped other Jewish refugees.
After escaping from a prison camp and avoiding being sent to an extermination
camp, she fled to the United States where she worked as a journalist and writer.
She went on to write numerous books and articles dealing with the the nature of
power, politics, freedom, authority and totalitarianism, earning an international
reputation as one of the leading political philosophers of her time.
