Nazism suppressed the social-democratic constitutional tradition until the late 1960s

Evidence

Not merely Kirchheimer’s trenchant studies from the late 1920s and early 1930s but also all the discussion by social-democratic and trade-union-oriented legal and constitutional experts, both among themselves and with their authoritarian counterparts, formed part of a tradition of social-democratic thought that had been either destroyed or protractedly interrupted by Nazism and remained suppressed until late into the 1960s. In the Federal Republic, this tradition was only maintained by Wolfgang Abendroth, an outsider among the university professors. Habermasand even more so others of his generationknew only more recent work by Kirchheimer, Neumann or Fraenkel. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2372

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Nazism destroyed a generation of social-democratic constitutional thought — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2372; Work-immanent criticism served as political retreat under Nazism and after 1945 — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2224

Broader Connections

• Nazism destroyed a generation of social-democratic constitutional thought #expands (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2372
• Work-immanent criticism served as political retreat under Nazism and after 1945 #expands (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2224