German culture was already self-complicit before Hitler destroyed it.
Evidence
The claim that Hitler has destroyed German culture is no more than an advertising stunt of those who want to rebuild it from their telephone desks. Such art and thought as were exterminated by Hitler had long been leading a severed and apocryphal existence, whose last hideouts Fascism swept out. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 73
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- SEED: Essay angle: the ‘advertising stunt’ claim that the thing Nazis destroyed was already dying — applied to any period’s claim of ‘destroyed culture’.
Related
- Adorno saw Hitler as executor of a pre-existing deculturing tendency (similarity 0.80)