Postwar restitution of seized scholarly institutions remained legally unsettled years after the war.

Evidence

After all, everything which had been done, from the striking of the Society’s name from the Register of Societies to the expatriation of Institute members, had all been illegal, and an automatic restoration of previous conditions, in so far as this lay in the power of the German administration and other institutions, would have been the normal thing to expect. But nothing of the sort had been done, even in the meantime. The university’s invitation, in any case, could hardly have been intended sincerely. Klingelhöfer, who signed it, was the very person who in 1938 had signed the decree in which the Ministry of Culture ordered the Institute’s books to be dispersed. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 423

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Institutional legacies persist after the conditions that produced them vanish — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 106
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Institutional legacies persist after the conditions that produced them vanish — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 106