File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2003/heidegger.0309, message 362


Subject: RE: accusation and nihilism
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:54:08 +0200
From: "Bakker, R.B.M. de" <R.B.M.deBakker-AT-uva.nl>


What should be realized, by those who read Heidegger and are really
interested in what we're in, and so are willing to recognize the man,
is that, after 1945, for him and his family, things hardly changed.

My father walked during the hunger winter from Den Haag to Groningen.
Then, in 1945, bread fell from the sky like manna. 

Heidegger, half of his salary taken away, writes 1947 to Boss, and in
a ps asks Boss for a piece of chocolate, for the late hours. I feel
ashamed.....

Heidegger was spied on from 1936 or 1937. The spy himself could not
bear it and told him. His 2 sons were fighting in Russia. Near the
end he was mobilized. Then, under allied rule, his library was almost
stolen by the French, his house occupied, his sons till 1950 in Russia,
and permanent target for the Juds and Henks. He had to be careful
till the end.

Petzet knew him well. But the only thing Heidegger ever said to
him on the whole story was: one has not treated me very fine.

rdb


"It's a sick world we're living in these days" (Eminem)


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