Habermas was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, in 1929. He was 15 when Germany lost the war to the Allies in 1945. As Martin Matuštík wrote, Habermas had served in the Hitler Youth and had been sent to defend the western front during the final months of the war. The Nuremberg trials and the release of documentary films depicting the activities in the concentration camps proved to be tough moments of self-critical realisation, a breaking point for discernment and political awakening for Habermas. “All at once we saw that we had been living in a politically criminal system,” he said. This...
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