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The Frankfurt School

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Nazis and the Soviet Union

They left and the Nazis got busy. They knew they had no place there, these people. I don't think it crossed their mind to go to the Soviet Union. Walter Benjamin, alas, took his own life. He was trapped. In America, they joined people in Brecht and Thomas Mann on the West Coast. And actually, they were anti-American, but they were also, especially after the Second World War., very anti-American.

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