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The document, “On the Concept of History” (Über den Begriff der Geschichte) by Walter Benjamin, was composed in early 1940, shortly before Benjamin’s attempt to escape from Vichy France, where Jewish and Marxist German refugees were handed over by the government to the Gestapo. A copy of the document was mailed to the philosopher Hannah Arendt, which she passed on to Theodor Adorno.
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