Postwar German arguments turned morality itself into ideological self-justification.

Evidence

Along with truth, morality too was turned into ideology. One argument used against restitution and compensation was: in view of the gravity of the crimes, restitution was not possible anyway. In defence of racist measures, it was argued that they were at least honest, and had also helped the Jews to create Israel. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2034

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the ‘immodesty’ essay’s theme of claims that flip moral categories into self-serving ideology; a concrete instance of ideology-critique. — connects to: Nazi control worked by making rational self-interest equal cooperation. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 382; Under total mobilization even genocidal calculus becomes rational self-justification — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 237

Broader Connections

• Under total mobilization even genocidal calculus becomes rational self-justification #complicates (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 237
• Nazi control worked by making rational self-interest equal cooperation. #complicates (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 382