Habermas was shaped by post-war re-education rather than Nazi experience

Evidence

The German surrender in May 1945 was an experience of liberation for him. He greedily read not only the long-banned Western and German literature that was being published by Rowohlt, but also pamphlets by Marx and Engels published in East Berlin and distributed by his local communist bookshop. He was hoping for an intellectual and moral renewal in Germany, and was disappointed to see how little renewal was noticeable during the elections to the first Bundestag, and how soon the question of rearmament returned to the agenda. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2292

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Postwar German re-education shaped Habermas’s political disillusionment — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2292; All of Habermas’s significant professors except one had Nazi pasts — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2293

Broader Connections

• Postwar German re-education shaped Habermas’s political disillusionment #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2292