Sadly, as mentioned before, Hannah as a Jew experienced and was part of both groups. Even though Hannah puts those people in two separate groups, we can see throughout the book, that they still very much overlap. As those nations consisted of population with very diverse people and different cultures that could not form a nation for every culture existing, the existence of “minority group” and “stateless groups” appeared. Those countries/empires were mostly located in Eastern and Southern part of Europe. In that period of time, many people ended up living in different countries within the EU, without really being a citizen in any of them. So, how this all happened? How she ended up being in the situation when she had to run away to save her own life – a basic human right? Why was she so critical of the idea of the universal human rights? Basically, the belief of the universal human rights was put to the test for real after the World War I. Lucky, she was able to escape the terror of concentration camp and start a new life in the USA, far away from hatred. The book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, was written by Hannah Arendt, who was actually part of Jewish minority and stateless herself.
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