Kirchheimer smuggled an anti-Nazi pamphlet into Germany inside a series edited by Carl Schmitt

Evidence

In 1935 he wrote a pamphlet on State Structure and Law in the Third Reich, which was published under the pseudonym Dr Hermann Seitz' and smuggled into Germany camouflaged as no. 12 of a series entitled The Present-Day German State’. The editor of this series was Carl Schmitt, who in the wake of the victorious Nazis had progressed to become a Prussian State councillor, a member of the Academy of German Law, and National Group Leader of the National Group for University Teachers of the National Socialist League for the Protection of the Law. The pamphlet provoked a disgusted reaction in the Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung, which was also edited by Schmitt. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 254

Categorization

• CANDY: An exiled theorist hid his attack on the Third Reich inside a book series edited by the very Nazi jurist he was attacking — a genuinely tweetable irony.
• SHARE: Perfect for the one friend who tracks Weimar jurist feuds and the Schmitt-Kirchheimer relationship specifically.