Hannah Arendt, who coined 'The banality of death' phrase

This article was in The Irish Times yesterday. It makes for great reading.

Hannah Arendt was born into the Jewish faith in Hannover in 1906. 

She was imprisoned by the Nazis for a short time in Berlin and lost her German citizenship in 1937. 

Arendt moved to the United States in 1941 and died in New York on December 4, 1975. 

Today is the anniversary of her death.

While attending the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Israel in 1961 as a journalist for The New Yorker she coined the famous phrase ‘The banality of evil’.

The Humphreys’ article is well worth a read.

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/hannah-arendt-and-the-meaning-of-evil-1.4423441#.X8kZfvdSxP4.mailto