Exposing ex-Nazi officials in the West German judiciary triggered establishment backlash.

Evidence

Among these were: the SDS’s uncompromising insistence on continuing extra-parliamentary action against the acquiring of atomic weapons for the Bundeswehr (the West German armed forces); actions such as an exhibition in which documentation relating to Nazi lawyers who had taken up official positions again in the Federal Republic was presentedthis was attacked both by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, which stereotyped it as a communist-inspired action, and by the SPD party executive, which distanced itself from it in a press release; and a reprint in the SDS paper Standpunkt of a critique by Abendroth of the draft of the Godesberg Programme. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 590

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the Frankfurt School’s denazification material on former Nazis reoccupying West German institutions. — connects to: West German reactionaries welcomed right-wing backlash against left-wing professors — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2675; Antiracist movements that crack open institutions trigger an immediate formalist backlash. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 127; Neo-nationalist backlash against imposed Western models recurs across post-authoritarian spaces. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 55
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: West German reactionaries welcomed right-wing backlash against left-wing professors — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2675; Antiracist movements that crack open institutions trigger an immediate formalist backlash. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 127; Neo-nationalist backlash against imposed Western models recurs across post-authoritarian spaces. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 55