Anti-communist policing in West Germany extended to anyone who refused to denounce communism

Evidence

Anti-Communism was also on the march in colonial' West Germany. On 19 September 1950 the Federal Government announced a ruling concerning Anti-Democratic Political Activities by Public Employees’. … Even people who openly admitted that they were not anti-communists were exposed to defamation and discrimination. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 467

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the American McCarthyite dynamic of enforced informer-loyalty, and prefigures Horkheimer and Adorno’s later refusal to denounce communism publicly. — connects to: Anti-communism replaced anti-fascism as West Germany joined the Western camp — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 426; West German anti-communism criminalized leftist and persecutee organizations by decree — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 467; Anti-terror measures in West Germany extended to suppress legal opposition — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2755 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Anti-communism replaced anti-fascism as West Germany joined the Western camp — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 426; West German anti-communism criminalized leftist and persecutee organizations by decree — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 467; Anti-terror measures in West Germany extended to suppress legal opposition — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2755 (+4 more)