American anti-communism resurged in the late 1930s, echoing Weimar’s last years.

Evidence

At the end of the 1930s they were experiencing in exile a situation which in some respects recalled the last years of the Weimar Republic. In the late 1930s, when the New Deal came to a standstill, the end of the Red Decade also arrived. In reaction to the years of prominence in politics, administration and the media of left-wingers, or those denounced as such, an unmistakable anti-communism appeared, increasing in strength in the wake of the Hitler-Stalin pact. Even during the 1930s, there had been tolerance for left-wing positions among those who were established in America, but hardly ever for émigrés. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1058

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader arc of émigré experience and the Red Decade decline alongside New Deal stagnation. — connects to: New Criticism’s rise and fall tracked McCarthy-era anti-communism