
— Hannah Arendt US-amerikanische Politologin und Philosophin deutscher Herkunft 1906 - 1975
Nach Auschwitz. Essays & Kommentare 1 spiegel.de http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13494945.html?name=Die+Sorgfalt+des+T%26ouml%3Btens
Original englisch: "But perhaps the most striking and frightening aspect of the German flight from reality is the habit of treating facts as though they were mere opinions." - The Aftermath of Nazi Rule - Report from Germany. In: Commentary 10 (1950), p. 342 (344) stanford.edu pdf http://www.stanford.edu/dept/DLCL/files/pdf/hannah_aftermath_of_nazi_rule.pdf