Secret reports on Nazi Germany: the Frankfurt School contribution to the war effort. Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, Otto Kirchheimer

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 440-441
Author(s):  
Goran Miljan
Keyword(s):  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Herbert Marcuse ◽  
War Effort ◽  
Franz Neumann

Introduction

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franz Neumann ◽  
Herbert Marcuse ◽  
Otto Kircheimer ◽  
Raymond Geuss
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Herbert Marcuse ◽  
World War ◽  
Intelligence Agency ◽  
Central European ◽  
European Section ◽  
Office Of Strategic Services

This introduction discusses the Frankfurt School's contribution to the United States' World War II effort. In particular, it examines the role played by three German scholars and prominent members of the Frankfurt School: Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Otto Kirchheimer. As political analysts at the Research and Analysis Branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the first American intelligence agency, Neumann, Marcuse, and Kirchheimer prepared intelligence reports on Nazi Germany. The chapter considers how, by adapting Critical Theory to the American cultural and bureaucratic machine, the Frankfurt group was rapidly able to impose their own “intellectual guidance” on the Central European Section, a Research and Analysis Branch subdivision charged with analyzing and studying Nazi Germany (as well as Austria and the other Central European countries).

Secret Reports on Nazi Germany

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franz Neumann ◽  
Herbert Marcuse ◽  
Otto Kirchheimer ◽  
Raymond Geuss
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Herbert Marcuse ◽  
Socialist Economy ◽  
Intelligence Analysis ◽  
World War ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Office Of Strategic Services ◽  
German Jewish

During World War II, three prominent members of the Frankfurt School—Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Otto Kirchheimer—worked as intelligence analysts for the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime forerunner of the CIA. This book brings together their most important intelligence reports on Nazi Germany, most of them published here for the first time. These reports provide a fresh perspective on Adolf Hitler's regime and the Second World War, and a fascinating window on Frankfurt School critical theory. They develop a detailed analysis of Nazism as a social and economic system and the role of anti-Semitism in Nazism, as well as a coherent plan for the reconstruction of postwar Germany as a democratic political system with a socialist economy. These reports played a significant role in the development of postwar Allied policy, including denazification and the preparation of the Nuremberg Trials. They also reveal how wartime intelligence analysis shaped the intellectual agendas of these three important German–Jewish scholars who fled Nazi persecution prior to the war. The book features a foreword and a comprehensive general introduction that puts these writings in historical and intellectual context.

1. The Frankfurt School

2017 ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Stephen Eric Bronner
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Herbert Marcuse ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Erich Fromm ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
History Of ◽  
Inner Circle

‘The Frankfurt School’ provides a brief history of the formation of the Frankfurt School, and biographies of prominent members. The Frankfurt School grew out of the Institute for Social Research, the first Marxist think tank. However, in 1930, under the directorship of Max Horkheimer, the organization moved to America to escape the Nazis, and began to concentrate on critical theory. Aside from Horkheimer, notable members of the Frankfurt School's inner circle included Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Jürgen Habermas. Each member of the inner circle was different, but they all shared the same concerns, and attempted to solve them through intellectual daring and experimentation.

Herbert Marcuse and the Frankfurt School

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-57
Author(s):  
Axel Honneth ◽  
Charles Reitz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Herbert Marcuse
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