German intellectuals valued Frankfurt School writings more than food after the war

Evidence

Josef Maier (a former student of the Institut and the husband of Alice Maier, then the administrative head of the New York branch] wrote in a letter to his wife that the better students and intellectuals in Germany are more interested in getting our writings than in getting food. And you know what that means. He thinks that all the universities would like to have the Zeitschrift if they could get it.’ … The audience for whom the Frankfurt School had so long insisted on writing in German was beginning to materialize. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 844