Adorno preferred returning to a hostile Germany over rebuilding exile elsewhere.

Evidence

I do not know how much I can speak for both of us in what is literally a matter of life and death, although I think I can, but I would rather run the risk of being beaten to death over there than `build up’ something anywhere else, or even withdraw into private life, although developments … would hardly give one a chance to have any private life. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 481

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School’s collective decision to re-establish the Institute in Frankfurt rather than remain in America. — connects to: Adorno located more hope for overcoming alienation in post-Hitler Germany than in America. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 409; Adorno proposed relaunching the Institute’s German-language publishing while Horkheimer preferred waiting. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 410; Returning émigrés, not German institutions, had to initiate their own institutional restoration. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 423 (+8 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno located more hope for overcoming alienation in post-Hitler Germany than in America. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 409; Adorno proposed relaunching the Institute’s German-language publishing while Horkheimer preferred waiting. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 410; Returning émigrés, not German institutions, had to initiate their own institutional restoration. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 423 (+8 more)