Roman Uddin

Heidegger DID oppose Hitlerism, but that could not be done publicly because people were being fired, even arrested, for overt opposition. Heidegger opposed Hitlerism through his rectorship (which had no nazi elements, which caused his job to be at risk, before he resigned in disgust). His courses during that time were contrary to the nazi myths about the Greeks, a course about Hölderlin (contrary to nazi idealization), lectures on Nietzsche, and a course exposing phony Chrisitianity (thus, confronting anti-Semitism indirectly). His private notebooks have many passages during the 1930s criticizing the nazi-friendship academic trends at his university. After the war, he was denied employment for teachng, but there were no protests against him, apart from persons who had a grudge against him (Eduard Baumgarten, Karl Jaspers, and nazi faculty) who contributed to the de-nazification committee evaluation of him (which included a member on that committee whose Jewish wife died in a nazi prison). Heidegger returned to salaried teaching in 1951, offering courses on reason (“The Principle of Reason”), thinking (“What Is Called Thinking?”), philosophy as such, and offered many lectures in the university which have been anthologized in well-known books. I have discussed this and more here: “a note about Heidegger and the university” https://discursive-living.blogspot.com/2017/07/university.html