Samuel Miner
Chapter 2 examines several groups of persecuted and émigré jurists in concentration camps and exile. There are a few general themes of exile that shaped the postwar constitutional structures of West Germany. Primarily, political and interdenominational coalition-building was crucial in Western exile. In the United States, Social Democratic Party (SPD) members were sponsored by the Jewish Labor Delegation; Jewish émigrés formed alliances with Christian apologists in interdenominational anti-Nazi coalitions. In Switzerland, Wilhelm Hoegner, a Bavarian particularist, founded a group with Prussian civil servants. The divisions of German society were weakened in exile, with the notable exception of the divisions between the communist and non-communist left. The strengthening of anticommunism in exile made the postwar SPD more willing to work in coalition with the Christian Democrats.