Schelsky actively returned proven Nazis to university posts while posing as anti-ideological.

Evidence

According to René König, in his autobiography Living in Contradiction, Schelsky was the driving force behind the return of proven Nazis to posts as university teachers, while at the same time presenting himself as an advocate of the young, empirical, `anti-ideological’ sociologists. Adorno’s allusion to Hofstätter’s pro-fascist past, in his reply to the latter’s criticism of Group Experimentcriticism in which Hofstätter had supported the idea of repressionwas a rare example during the 1950s of an open reference to something that was being universally repressed. The courses given in Marburg by Wolfgang Abendroth, on publications of the most important scholars in the humanities and law in the Third Reich, were another example. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2316

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• SHARE: René König’s account of Schelsky rehabilitating Nazis — specific enough that only a German-sociology specialist would care deeply.