Nazism and Cold War restoration made German utopian social criticism alien to postwar generations.

Evidence

There could be no clearer evidence than this statement, not only of how alien the tradition of utopianism and social criticism in German thought had become as a result of the Nazi regime, but also of how alien it had remained during the restoration and cold war period to those who had grown up after 1933. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 573

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the book’s recurrent thesis that Nazi rule plus Adenauer-era restoration severed younger Germans from utopian-social criticism. — connects to: The Nazi era and Cold War severed younger Germans from utopian social criticism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2322; Nazi rule and restoration alienated postwar Germans from utopian-social criticism; Work-immanent criticism served as political retreat under Nazism and after 1945 — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2224 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Nazi era and Cold War severed younger Germans from utopian social criticism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2322; Nazi rule and restoration alienated postwar Germans from utopian-social criticism; Work-immanent criticism served as political retreat under Nazism and after 1945 — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2224 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The Nazi era and Cold War severed younger Germans from utopian social criticism. #corroborates (1.00) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2322
• Nazi rule and restoration alienated postwar Germans from utopian-social criticism #corroborates (1.00)
• Postwar German social science had fallen behind other industrial nations #complicates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1852