Race, Ethnicity, and Power: A Comparative

In the third section, Cold War, "University Politics as State Politics" focuses on the contemporary intellectual opposition in Germany. Nolte believes that the present (1970s) chaotic state of the German university is due neither to the frustration of students nor to the anger of underpaid and underrespected middle-level instructors but rather to their broader critique of West German society. Some of their reactions revolve around the fear that from rearmament an offensive war against the East European states would result some day, as a consequence of the power of surviving military traditions; the supposition that the division of the German national state was to be traced not to overwhelming historical necessities, but to particular interests of the "Rhenish Confederate" Chancellor in Bonn; and the hypothesis that the "restoration of the old social leadership strata" would bring Germany again on the road to an authoritarian or even fascist dictatorship [185].