The same academics who persecuted the Institute now invited it to return

Evidence

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. The recommendation that the Institute should be asked to return had come from Professor Wilhelm Gerloff, mentioning the `very considerable resources’ which the Society for Social Research had at its disposal. In 1933 Gerloff, as rector, had signed the declaration dissociating the university from the Institute of Social Research. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1710

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the wider pattern of postwar German continuity of Nazi-era officials, akin to the denazification failures in Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann reporting and post-war German institutional restitution literature. — connects to: The Institute’s return to Frankfurt transformed it from isolated enclave to mainstream intellectual force. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 872; Frankfurt University invited the Institute back within two years of the war’s end — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1709; Postwar Frankfurt University saw hostile encounters between returnees and émigrés — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1744

Broader Connections

• Frankfurt University invited the Institute back within two years of the war’s end #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1709
• The Institute’s return to Frankfurt transformed it from isolated enclave to mainstream intellectual force. #corroborates (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 872
• Postwar Frankfurt University saw hostile encounters between returnees and émigrés #qualifies (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1744