Notes to pp. 225–229 53962 Adorno, ‘Siegfried Kracauer, Jacques Offenbach und das Paris seiner Zeit’,
GS, vol. 19, p. 363ff.
63 Benjamin and Adorno, The Complete Correspondence 1928–1940, p. 184.
64 Ibid., p. 186 (translation slightly amended).
65 Adorno and Horkheimer, Briefwechsel, vol. 1, p. 354.
66 Max Horkheimer, ‘Traditionelle und kritische Theorie’, ZfS, VI, 2, 1937,
p. 245ff.; GS, vol. 4, p. 162.
67 Adorno, Minima Moralia, p. 33.
68 Ibid., p. 28.
69 Adorno and Horkheimer, Briefwechsel, vol. 1, pp. 43 and 228.
70 Ibid., p. 478.
71 An excellent account of Heidegger’s role in the Third Reich has been
provided by Rüdiger Safranski in Martin Heidegger, p. 228ff.; see also
Victor Farías, Heidegger und der Nationalsozialismus. Among the pro-
fessors in Frankfurt University resistance to Nazi rule and the ‘purging’
of the university was minimal. Instead, ‘the professors mainly kept their
heads down and tried to maintain their status in a politics-free existence
so as to continue their research’ (Notker Hammerstein, Die Johann
Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, pp. 186, 188ff. and 320ff.). In reality the
situation in the Arts Faculty had changed completely. With Tillich’s
chair now vacant, it was filled temporarily by Arnold Gehlen and Gerhard
Krüger. Then, in 1935, with Heidegger’s assistance, the opportunistic
Hans Lipps was appointed. He was followed as Privatdozent by Karl
Schlechta, who for a time was also cultural adviser on the city council.
The chair for philosophy and education was given to the Nazi Josef Nelis.
See ibid., p. 361ff.
72 Adorno to Willy Hartner, 29 December 1961, Frankfurter Adorno Blätter,
VII, 2003, p. 95. Hartner, who was two years Adorno’s junior, had been
a close friend since their youth. He had studied ‘astronomy, chemistry
and mathematics, as well as oriental and Far Eastern languages at the
universities of Frankfurt, Oslo and Paris’. He was guest professor at
Harvard between 1935 and 1937. ‘Hartner never joined the Party or any
of its organizations. Inwardly, he felt no sympathy towards it. Never-
theless, he was appointed lecturer and acted as deputy director at the
China Institute in 1940.’ After the war, he was appointed to a chair in the
history of science. Adorno often sought his advice, as an experienced
and influential friend, on academic matters, when he himself was pro-
fessor in Frankfurt. See Notker Hammerstein, Die Johann Wolfgang
Goethe-Universität, p. 518ff.
73 Adorno and Horkheimer, Briefwechsel, vol. 1, p. 85.
74 Ibid., p. 66. In his letter of 13 May 1935, he wrote to Horkheimer, ‘Nor
can I deny that I feel under an obligation to marry Gretel, if only to save
her from this hell.’
75 These laws decreed that ‘persons with three or four Jewish grandparents
were full-Jews; those with two “Aryan” and two Jewish grandparents were
“half-Jews”’. Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich, p. 295f.
76 Adorno and Horkeimer, Briefwechsel, vol. 1, p. 341.
77 Ibid.
78 Benjamin and Adorno, The Complete Correspondence 1928–1940, pp. 150–