The Frankfurt Institute’s own data told them to flee immediately in 1933

Evidence

The Frankfurt group decided that the superficially powerful labor movement would not effectively oppose Hitler. Showing now-legendary, and possibly unique, trust in their own data, the researchers saved their lives by emigrating almost immediately after the Nazis took power (at a time when most liberals and Jews were still con­ vinced that nothing really bad would happen). — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 441

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Frankfurt School members were self-chosen exiles even before 1933 forced them abroad. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 75; Only those who recognized Nazism’s break immediately managed to flee in time — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 285