The Allies actively discouraged anti-fascist émigrés from returning to Germany

Evidence

Apart from that, the Allies never had any intention, even in the long term, of encouraging political émigrés to return. Almost the reverse was true. The procedure used in releasing prisoners of war showed this. The British released anti-fascist prisoners last. Only a minority of influential occupation officials took a radically democratic line, and the significance of this minority shrank very quickly. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1640

Apart from that, the Allies never had any intention, even in the long term, of encouraging political émigrés to return. Almost the reverse was true. The procedure used in releasing prisoners of war showed this. The British released anti-fascist prisoners last. Only a minority of influential occupation officials took a radically democratic line, and the significance of this minority shrank very quickly. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 408

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why did the British deliberately hold back anti-fascist POWs last? Worth chasing in occupation historiography.
• DEFINE: Specifies what ‘no intention of encouraging émigrés to return’ meant in practice: anti-fascist POWs released last, radically democratic officials marginal and shrinking.
• DEEPTHINKING: Inverts the standard liberation narrative — the victors’ occupation systematically sidelined exactly those Germans who had fought fascism; worth sitting with for how occupation politics selects for continuity.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1640; Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 408
• XREF: connects to: The Allied ban on political activity eased Nazi and conservative continuity in German institutions — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1640; Allied bans on political activity preserved Nazi economic and administrative influence

Broader Connections

• The Allied ban on political activity eased Nazi and conservative continuity in German institutions #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1640
• Allied bans on political activity preserved Nazi economic and administrative influence #corroborates (0.80)