Postwar Frankfurt had been purged of left-wing Jewish intellectuals

Evidence

When Horkheimer, Adorno and Pollock settled in Frankfurt with their wives and began to expand the `German outpost’, they saw themselves as Jews, as left-wing intellectuals and as critical sociologists in an environment which had been more or less completely purged of people like themselves, and in which all the signs had long since been pointing clearly to the restoration of the old order. The unique symbiosis represented by German-Jewish culture had been irreversibly destroyed. Apart from Horkheimer and Adorno, none of the distinguished lecturers or professors from the heyday of Frankfurt Universitythe last years of the Weimar Republicreturned. Horkheimer, Adorno and Pollock could count on being met with patience and good intentions precisely because they were, and remained, the exceptions. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1845

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Nazi purges removed a third of Frankfurt’s university teachers; The 1933 Civil Service Law purged Jewish and leftist academics from German universities — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 520; Nazis purged over a third of Frankfurt university teachers, second only to Berlin — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 522 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• The Holocaust and Stalinism together killed the Jewish left’s debate tradition #complicates (0.75) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 961
• Over twelve million ethnic Germans were expelled from postwar Europe #qualifies (0.72) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1530