American occupation authorities policed German intellectual life and censored negative images of US society.

Evidence

(The fate of the journal Der Ruf (The Call), founded by Hans Werner Richter and Alfred Andersch, which was banned by the American military government in 1947 for its `nihilistic’ ideas about democracy, was only one among many examples showing how narrow were the limits of what the American authorities would permit or even support. William Faulkner’s novels, describing the collapse of the old aristocratic families in the American South and the rise of unscrupulous upstarts, were banned in 1947 even during a preliminary selection in Washington of books to be exported to Germany because, as it was stated, they presented a wholly negative image of American society.) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 425

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the book’s broader pattern of institutional self-censorship and political constraint on exiled intellectuals. — connects to: American occupation authorities suppressed critical German publications and even Faulkner novels — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1722; US occupation authorities funded German sociology as a tool for democratization — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1861; American occupation policy and funding drove West German empirical sociology — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1865 (+2 more)
• SEED: An essay on Cold War cultural export policy: even Faulkner was screened out of the American bookshelf abroad.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: American occupation authorities suppressed critical German publications and even Faulkner novels — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1722; US occupation authorities funded German sociology as a tool for democratization — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1861; American occupation policy and funding drove West German empirical sociology — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1865 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• American occupation authorities suppressed critical German publications and even Faulkner novels #exemplifies (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1722