The experience of Nazi Germany left a deep scar in the minds of the theorists of the Frankfurt School

The experience of Nazi Germany left a deep scar in the minds of the theorists of the Frankfurt School. They simply could not reconcile how an educated, civilized nation that gave birth to luminaries like Kant, Hegel, and Beethoven could adore a mad dictator like Hitler almost like a god. To find the answer, they did not limit themselves to economics or politics, but leaned towards the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud.