Catholics and conservatives aided Jewish refugees more than Protestants and liberals did
Evidence
The New York branch of the Institut, although reducing its activities during the war, did not cease to function. After the closing of the Studies in Philosophy and Social Science, several of its members began to spend more time with empirical work. One of their projects was an inquiry into the pattern of help extended by German gentiles to Jewish victims of Hitler. With the prestigious cosponsorship of Thomas Mann, data was collected by such means as advertisements in the Aufbau, the leading Germanlanguage refugee newspaper. Although never published, the study did show that Catholics and conservatives had given more assistance than Protestants and liberals. According to Paul Massing, this conclusion was later used by Horkheimer to support his argument that conservatives were often better preservers of critical ideals than liberals. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 672
Categorization
- SEED: An angle on how ideological reputations (conservative vs liberal) diverge from actual protective behavior under persecution.
- SHARE: A surprising archival finding perfect for a friend interested in the Frankfurt School’s empirical phase.
- XREF: connects to: A Judeo-Christian national identity, not conversion, opened Whiteness to non-Protestants.; The Spanish Inquisition was economic control, and Ottomans sheltered its Jewish refugees — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 353