Early 1950s German public ranked Jewish claims to aid last among suffering groups

Evidence

In 1931 Horkheimer had spoken of large-scale research projects which were either under way or were soon to follow. Nothing of this sort was mentioned at the reopening ceremony. Horkheimer did not so much as hint at the initial results of the study on West German political awareness, although in this he would have appeared in no way isolated. For example, the US High Commissioner for Germany (HICOG) had in 1951 published the results of an opinion survey in German institutes, in which one of the questions asked was which groups had the greatest claim to assistance. `Public opinion’ produced a hierarchy which was symptomatic of the times: war widows and orphans came first; second, those who had been bombed; third, those who had been expelled from the East; and, fourth, the resistance fighters of 20 July 1944, when there was an attempted assassination of Hitler. Only then came the Jews. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1905

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier Institute study on anti-Semitism and West German political awareness, which Horkheimer here withholds. — connects to: Most postwar Germans rejected shared guilt; academics and farmers were most anti-Semitic — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1887; Postwar German public discussion revealed majority anti-democratic and anti-Semitic sentiment. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1887; Open anti-Semitic remarks persisted among Frankfurt faculty in the 1950s — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1999 (+1 more)
• CANDY: The galvanizing hierarchy of who deserved help — widows, bombed, expelled, July 20 plotters, then Jews — is a striking, memorable ordering.

Broader Connections

• Open anti-Semitic remarks persisted among Frankfurt faculty in the 1950s #corroborates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1999
• The Institut subordinated Jewish identity and anti-Semitism to social class analysis #complicates (0.72) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 162