Postwar West Germany measured time by currency reform, not liberation, and suppressed memory.

Evidence

The new calendar' in Germany did not have the datemark before liberationafter liberation’, but `before currency reformafter currency reform’ (as Peter Rühmkorf put it). Germany was integrating itself into the West and was busy with reconstructiona process Horkheimer wanted very much to contribute to. There was much eagerness to suppress memories, and a great deal of reluctance and inadequacy in the financial restitution and compensation which Germany was forced by the victorious Western powers to provide to victims of the former regime. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 471

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier chapter’s material on denazification rewarding Nazi sympathizers and punishing resisters — same institutional pattern of selective memory. — connects to: West Germany’s era marked itself by currency reform, not liberation from Nazism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1911; Economic growth replaced history as Germany’s organizing axis of time after 1945. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 557; Postwar German conservatism reframed itself as technocratic stabilization rather than political reaction — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 615
• SHARE: The Rühmkorf line about the datemark swapping ‘liberation’ for ‘currency reform’ is a niche, quotable detail for anyone working on postwar German memory culture.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: West Germany’s era marked itself by currency reform, not liberation from Nazism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1911; Economic growth replaced history as Germany’s organizing axis of time after 1945. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 557; Postwar German conservatism reframed itself as technocratic stabilization rather than political reaction — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 615

Broader Connections

• West Germany’s era marked itself by currency reform, not liberation from Nazism #corroborates (1.00) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1911