Postwar German academia forced returning émigrés and Nazi-era careerists into mutual calculation

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, 431

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Adorno’s own analysis of denazification as institutionalized forgetting, and the postwar continuity documented in the Institute’s restitution disputes. — connects to: German sociology was administratively reconstituted under Weimar-era leadership in 1946. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 416; Postwar Frankfurt University saw hostile encounters between returnees and émigrés — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1744; German postwar sociologists accused each other of totalitarian tendencies (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: German sociology was administratively reconstituted under Weimar-era leadership in 1946. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 416; Postwar Frankfurt University saw hostile encounters between returnees and émigrés — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1744; German postwar sociologists accused each other of totalitarian tendencies (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Postwar German academics ostracized colleagues who documented Nazi crimes and right-wing violence. #complicates (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 485