Question: The author of "The Origins of Totalitarianism" was born in what country?
Context: Jürgen Matthäus (born 1959) is a German historian and head of the research department of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.  He is an author and editor of multiple works on the history of World War II and the Holocaust.  Matthäus was a contributor to Christopher Browning's 2004 work "The Origins of the Final Solution". Resistance, Rebellion, and Death is a 1960 collection of essays written by Albert Camus and selected by the author prior to his death.  The essays here generally involve conflicts near the Mediterranean, with an emphasis on his home country Algeria, and on the Algerian War of Independence in particular.  He also criticizes capital punishment ("Reflections on the Guillotine") and totalitarianism in particular. The Origins of Totalitarianism (German: "Elemente und Ursprünge totaler Herrschaft" , "Elements and Origins of Totalitarian Rule"; 1951), by Hannah Arendt, describes and analyzes Nazism and Stalinism, the major totalitarian political movements of the first half of the 20th century.  The book is regularly listed as one of the best non-fiction books of the 20th century. Elżbieta Trela-Mazur (born 1947) is a Polish historian, author, Doctor of Humanities in contemporary history, and Professor in the Department of International Relations at Opole University, specializing in political history of modern world with emphasis on the history of Germany, Russia and the Soviet Union; totalitarianism, Sovietization of the Eastern Borderlands, Polish diaspora (Polonia) in Europe and elsewhere, as well as Central and Eastern Europe in general. Christopher P. Sloan (born September 28, 1954) is a science communicator, art director, author, and avocational paleontologist.  Sloan is a four-time award-winning author of children’s books written for the National Geographic Society.  He teaches modern approaches to science art online for the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and is chairman of the Lanzendorf Paleo-Art Committee of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, an advisory board member of Exposé, a juried annual of computer graphic art.  He is an active participant in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History’s Human Origins Program and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center.  Most of Sloan’s time is concerned with being President of Science Visualization, a science media company he started in 2010.  The firm is based in the Washington, D.C metropolitan area. . Peggy Antrobus (born 1935) is a feminist activist, author, and scholar from the Caribbean.  She served as Advisor on Women’s Affairs to the government of Jamaica, and as United Nations advisor to the Barbados Ministry of Social Transformation.  She is a founder member of several feminist organisations, including the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action (CAFRA), the global South feminist network Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), and the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN).  She is the author of "The Global Women's Movement: Origins, Issues and Strategies" (Zed Books, 2004). Johanna "Hannah" Arendt ( or ; ] ; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German-born American political theorist.  Her 18 books and numerous articles, ranging from works on totalitarianism to thinking and judging, greatly influence political philosophy to this day.  Arendt is widely considered one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. Robert N. Charrette (born 1953) is an award-winning graphic artist, game designer, sculptor and author.  Charrette has authored more than a dozen novels.  His gaming materials have received many Origins Awards.  Charrette was inducted in the Origins Hall of Fame in 2003.  His work is known for a clean, realistic style that invokes themes from Feudal Japan and Chanbara films and in particular, historical and fantastic representations of Samurai culture.  His early work in game design and miniature sculpting set the tone for depictions of Japanese mythology in American fantasy and science fiction.  His 1979 role-playing game "Bushido" was one of the first role-playing games with a non-Western theme and remained in print for more than three decades.  Charrette produced gaming products for Fantasy Games Unlimited, Grenadier Models Inc. and Ral Partha Enterprises, FASA and currently operates Parroom Enterprises, LLC, a boutique miniatures game company. David Sutton (born 1966) is the current editor of the "Fortean Times" magazine.  Sutton was born in Canterbury, Kent.  He was educated at the University of East Anglia, University College London, Birkbeck College and the British Film Institute.  He holds a doctorate, earned for his thesis on the origins and progress of British film comedy, and is the author of the book "A Chorus of Raspberries: British Film Comedy, 1929-1939". Chukwuemeka Jerry Esogbue (born 6 June 1970), usually referred to as Emeka Esogbue, is an Anioma (Nigerian) historian, journalist, writer and Anioma crusader.  He is the author of 'A Study of the Origins and Migrations of Anioma Settlements' (2015), 'A Short History of Omu' (2016), published by Carophem Communications Limited, Ibadan and 'Essentials of Anioma History' published in United States of America by SGNT Media.  Esogbue is currently Research Fellow with Anioma Essence Magazine and also Associate Editor of Homage Magazine.  As a historian, Emeka Esogbue favours the use of historical continuity in rendering past accounts and digging into the past of the Anioma people.  He emphasises on the origin and intertribal relationship of the Anioma people of Delta, Anambra, Imo, Edo and Rivers States of Nigeria.  Emeka Esogbue has in his writings passionately criticised the near assimilation of the Anioma people by related ethnic groups in the country and many of his works are centred on this.  He was born to the family of Esogbue in Isieke, Umuekea in Ibusa (Igbuzo) in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria.  His parents were Patrick Chukwudumebi and Theresa Nwasiwe Esogbue.  Dumebi was said to be a member of defunct Biafran Commando unit during the Nigerian Civil War.  His grandfather was Joseph Ozoemezie Esogbue, the first engine driver produced by Ibusa.  Chief (Prof) Augustine Onwuyalim Moses Esogbue is also a member of the family.
Answer: German-born