Most German Jewish émigrés to the USA were not genuine political refugees or anti-fascists.

Evidence

From the start, the émigrés who were drawn to the USA tended to be conservative, while the communist émigrés were concentrated more in Mexico. The Jewish émigrés, who made up over 90 per cent of the German émigrés in the USA, were mostly political refugees only in the sense that they were the victims of Nazi policy, without having actually belonged to opposition parties. Many of those who had been driven towards the political left by rightists who were all more or less anti-Semitic were able, in the USA, to return to more right-wing positions which suited them better. Most of the later émigrés moved to the USA as well, many of them members of the Jewish upper classes who had continued their activities under Nazi rule for as long as possible. Proportionately, the number of anti-fascists among them was very small. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1068

Categorization

• QUESTION: Surprising and worth verifying: the claim that over 90% were Jewish and mostly apolitical, with very few committed anti-fascists — nuance against popular refugee narratives.
• CANDY: Elevator-worthy counterintuitive fact: most Jewish émigrés to America were political conservatives, not the antifascist left of popular memory.
• XREF: connects to: Most Jewish émigrés to the USA were not political radicals at all. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1068