Postwar Germany’s most discussed reform program proposed a Goethe Cultural Association.

Evidence

Wiese’s programme, which today merely seems eccentric, was the sociotechnocratic counterpart to the most widely discussed programme circulating in Germany in 1945-6, Friedrich Meinecke’s The German Catastrophe, the principal suggestion in which was that a Goethe Cultural Association should found local groups throughout the country. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 416

Categorization

• CANDY: Germany’s grand postwar answer to catastrophe was… a Goethe club in every town. Grimly tweetable.
• XREF: connects to: Postwar German intellectual reconstruction proposals paired technocratic and cultural-visionary programs — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1679
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Postwar German intellectual reconstruction proposals paired technocratic and cultural-visionary programs — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1679