Martin Heidegger and the First World War: Being and Time as Funeral Oration - Paperbackby William H. F. Altman (Author) In a 1934 speech, marking the Twenty fifth Reunion of his high school class, Martin Heidegger spoke eloquently of classmates killed in the Great War and called on his audience to recognize that the national rebirth now occuring in Hitler's Germany must continue to draw inspiration from the war dead. In this process, he refers to the war of 1914 1918 as "the First World War." Since the condition for the possibility of