Postwar Frankfurt University saw hostile encounters between returnees and émigrés

Evidence

At Frankfurt University, those who had remainedsome of whom had had successful careers under the Third Reich, some of whom had had difficulties in their careers without later being able to claim reparationsand the émigrés, who were asserting their old rights in Frankfurt, confronted one another. They had little or no time for each other. Those representing the university acted calculatingly. Those who wanted to establish themselves afresh in Frankfurt also acted calculatingly. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1744

Categorization

• XREF: Tracks the institutional dimension of German postwar denazification and reparation politics — connects to broader debates about continuity of Nazi personnel in West German institutions. — connects to: German émigré colonies in Hollywood recreated the Weimar literary world in exile — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1212; Open anti-Semitic remarks persisted among Frankfurt faculty in the 1950s — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1999; Frankfurt University was a uniquely rich intellectual crossroads at its peak — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 453 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Postwar Frankfurt had been purged of left-wing Jewish intellectuals #expands (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1845