"[3][4] The term was coined by Peter Schönbach [de], a Frankfurt School co-worker of Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, based on their critical theory.
Neun kritische Modelle,[6] addressed the fallacy of the broad German post-war tendency to associate and simultaneously causally link Jews with the Holocaust.
[6]Initially, members of the Frankfurt School spoke of "guilt-defensiveness anti-Semitism", an antisemitism motivated by a deflection of guilt.
Several controversies ensued early in post-World War II Germany, e.g. when Konrad Adenauer appointed Hans Globke as Chief of the Chancellery, although the latter had formulated the Enabling Act of 1933, the emergency legislation that gave Hitler unlimited dictatorial powers and had been one of the leading legal commentators on the Nuremberg race laws of 1935.
In 1946, the Slovak writer Karel František Koch argued that the anti-semitic incidents that he witnessed in Bratislava after the war were "not antisemitism, but something far worse—the robber's anxiety that he might have to return Jewish property," a view that has been endorsed by Czech-Slovak scholar Robert Pynsent [cs].