Postwar German academics ostracized colleagues who documented Nazi crimes and right-wing violence.
Evidence
Alexander Mitscherlich, one of the few staunch supporters of Freud in the early post-Nazi period, had attracted the enmity of his colleagues, and accusations of fraud and treachery, through his activities as an observer and expert witness during the Nuremberg Trials and as co-editor of a collection of documents, Science without Humanity. According to Horkheimer, he was being treated `everywhere, in the faculties and even in the research community, as the new Gumbel’. (The statistician and mathematician Emil Julius Gumbel had attracted the enmity of colleagues, students and broad sections of the public during the 1920s by producing documents on political murders and the criminal prosecution of politically motivated offences, and exposing the right wing and the way it was being given preferential treatment.) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 485
Categorization
- XREF: Parallels the book’s recurring theme of postwar denazification rewarding Nazi sympathizers while punishing resisters. — connects to: German universities rushed to sever ties with persecuted colleagues rather than defend them; Postwar German academia forced returning émigrés and Nazi-era careerists into mutual calculation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 431; Postwar German university appointments reproduced the conservative professoriate of the Weimar Republic. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 472 (+4 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: German universities rushed to sever ties with persecuted colleagues rather than defend them; Postwar German academia forced returning émigrés and Nazi-era careerists into mutual calculation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 431; Postwar German university appointments reproduced the conservative professoriate of the Weimar Republic. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 472 (+4 more)