Adorno held that upper-class manners conceal violent anti-Semitism

Evidence

It is an illusion to which we easily fall [sic] that society people because of their good manners are free of Antisemitism. This did not even hold good in Europe. It is even less true here. We have the strongest reason to believe that the upper class is violently antisemitic. I happened to find this corroboration during my last trip to the East Coast. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1597

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on the earlier claim that the Institute feared American antisemitic potential could exceed Germany’s, and inverts the common assumption that anti-Semitism is a working-class phenomenon.
• QUESTION: This contradicts the later empirical finding that working-class anti-Semitism was more pronounced — worth tracing how the Institute reconciled this expectation with data.