Most German Jewish refugees in America were not anti-fascist activists

Evidence

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, 279

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharply qualifies the category ‘political refugee’: victimhood under Nazi policy is distinguished from actual membership in opposition parties.
• XREF: connects to: Most German Jewish émigrés to the USA were not genuine political refugees or anti-fascists. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1068; Most Jewish émigrés to the USA were not political radicals at all. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1068
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Most German Jewish émigrés to the USA were not genuine political refugees or anti-fascists. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1068; Most Jewish émigrés to the USA were not political radicals at all. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1068