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00:01Never has our future been more unpredictable.
00:05Never have we depended so much on political forces
00:09that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense.
00:13Forces that look like sheer insanity
00:16if judged by the standards of other centuries.
00:20Werner Arendt was a fearless thinker
00:26and becomes one of the most prolific political writers of our time.
00:33Anti-Semitism had been a feature of her life.
00:37Hannah Arendt saw this. She was there. She was living there.
00:42She escaped Nazi Germany,
00:44and she boarded a boat bound for the United States.
00:48And that's where she writes,
00:50the origins of totalitarianism.
00:54No one can ignore it. It's too important.
00:58At the same time, she becomes an American citizen.
01:01Never have been a member of the Communist Party.
01:04McCarthyism takes hold. It's very familiar.
01:09In the 1960s, she became the voice of American politics.
01:14Arendt sees this rise in violence
01:17that can threaten the norms and the institutions
01:20that preserve freedom in the United States.
01:23I had a member of my family killed.
01:26She sounds awful warning.
01:28She says you can actually destroy the Republic from within.
01:32The crisis of our time
01:36has brought forth an ever-present danger
01:38that is only too likely to stay with us from now on.
01:43The questions that my generation has been forced to live with.
01:46What happened?
01:48Why did it happen?
01:49How did this happen?
01:51How did this happen?
01:53How did this happen?
01:54How did this happen?
01:58Vielen Dank.