West German anti-communism criminalized leftist and persecutee organizations by decree
Evidence
On 19 September 1950 the Federal Government announced a ruling concerning
Anti-Democratic Political Activities by Public Employees'. 10 This described support for various organizations as beingincompatible with official duties’, referring to thirteen organizations in particular, among them the Cultural League for the Democratic Renewal of Germany, which avoided the ban by dissolving itself and founding a successor organization with the publisher Ernst Rowohlt at its head; and the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime. … As a result, many West German journals, newspapers and broadcasting organizations refused to publish anything else by Schneider from then on. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 467
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s existing thread on censorship-by-decree and state loyalty oaths; the Adenauer-era Berufsverbot precedent also connects to the Frankfurt School’s return under suspicion. — connects to: Anti-communism replaced anti-fascism as West Germany joined the Western camp — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 426; Anti-communist policing in West Germany extended to anyone who refused to denounce communism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 467; West German media blacklisted non-communists who engaged the East or opposed rearmament — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1894 (+1 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Anti-communism replaced anti-fascism as West Germany joined the Western camp — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 426; Anti-communist policing in West Germany extended to anyone who refused to denounce communism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 467; West German media blacklisted non-communists who engaged the East or opposed rearmament — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1894 (+1 more)