Locating Nazi evil: the contrasting visions of Gerschom Scholem, Hannah Arendt and Victor Klemperer

The author discusses the significant differences and similarities of the three prominent Jewish scholars and thinkers - with Scholem a Zionist, Arendt a dedicated Jew and erstwhile Zionist yet suspicious of of all collective and ideological labelings and Klemperer, a convert to protestantism and an advocate of German-Jewish assimilation