@ThePaulBunyanTrophy
One, please carefully re-read my previous post: I did not in any way show approval of his silence. Two, once more, please be careful of your sources (and standards, I should add).
I hope that you are not anachronistically applying the standards of a normal situation to a decidedly
abnormal one. Nazi Germany was exceedingly abnormal for
a lot of reasons. Most Germans were officially members of the Nazi party: you
and your family would easily get in trouble if you didn't (because Nazi Germany had
legal "blood guilt"). Being a member according to their official books is not what is typically understood by referring to someone as a Nazi, rather, the term is mostly applied to individuals who were
active members. Semantics aside, from what you are saying, I can't help but wonder what sources you looked at. Try
the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, for one.
The Encyclopædia Brittanica is another credible source.
Additionally, I never said that Heidegger's silence after the war was at all justifiable. I simply meant that it is wrong to defame anyone, especially when it means comparing them to the likes of
actual enthusiastic Nazis. I'm talking about monsters like Joseph Goebbels, Oswald Pohl, Elsa Ehrich, Heinrich Himmler, Ilse Koch, Irma Grese, Wilhelm Boger, and Josef Albert Meisinger -- and that's not even mentioning any of the Nazis involved with their atrocious human experimentation (reading about any of that may well give anyone nightmares).
As a student of philosophy, I have read some of Heidegger's works, and anything political or racial is conspicuously
absent. Given what Germany was like at the time and Heidegger's complete silence on the matter, there is ample reason for all of the scholarly debate. This is especially true concerning his philosophical writings. I am well aware that he was not a good person. However, from what I know, he was
not the sort of monster who would hand a Jewish infant to some departing SS officers because "they missed one." Such people did exist. Unfortunately, Heidegger was also clearly not among the incredible individuals living under the Nazi regime who risked (and often lost) their lives helping the various groups targeted by the Nazis. Obviously most of humanity is neither so brave nor so horrible.
That is why I am asking you to keep your facts straight. If you still conclude that Martin Heidegger was a horrifying anti-Semite, that's fine, just do not proclaim it as though it were verified fact, and please do not claim that his philosophy necessarily followed suit.
...Sorry about the tangent, but I think it needed to be said. Once more, thank you for your hard work in translating this series.