CDU-linked professor Böhm branded atomic-weapons protesters as neo-Nazis

Evidence

In the middle of April, 150,000 people took part in a demonstration in Hamburg. On 20 May there were demonstrations by 20,000 university teachers and students, in Frankfurt and elsewhere, against arming West German forces with atomic weapons. A month later, the Frankfurt student newspaper, diskus, published an article by Habermas which was a counter-statement to an article published simultaneously by the Frankfurt professor and CDU Member of the Bundestag, Franz Böhm. Böhm was a neo-liberal who had written the foreword to Group Experiment, and was chairman of the board of the Institute of Social Research’s Research Foundation. He described the protests as an attempt to create panic, a one-sided attempt to collaborate with dictators and oppressors opposing the West, class rabble-rousing against the CDU, and a `brutalization of political discussion and an undermining of the Basic Law’, preparing the way for a new form of Nazism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2345

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Playing down the right-wing danger by pathologizing its critics (ch71) and rigid conventionalism as anti-Semitism basis (ch61). — connects to: Establishment critics branded anti-nuclear protesters as proto-Nazi collaborators — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2345

Broader Connections

• Establishment critics branded anti-nuclear protesters as proto-Nazi collaborators #exemplifies (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2345