A translation of Günther Anders’s 1941 diary “Der Leichenwäscher der Geschichte ”, which first appeared in print in German in 1967. Published in conjunction with the contextualising essay “Hollywood, Exile and New Types of Pictures” which can be read here. Los Angeles, March 1941 [1] Vita brevis? No, nobody will make me believe that life is short. It’s long—not because of long boredom, but because of its genuinely long duration. At least moving backwards, life is endless. “My” childhood in...