ABSTRACT
The tradition of German sociology was temporarily shattered in 1933. A few scholars were able to carry on with their lectures, but the majority was compelled to leave the country and continue their work elsewhere. The German Sociological Society was put into cold storage by its new president H. Freyer in order that its activities should not be misused by the National Socialist regime. Very few of the older representatives of German sociology went over to the Nazi camp. H. Freyer, who at first seemed inclined to do so, and who expressed some astonishing views in his book Pallas Athene, described as the draft for a political ethic. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II he left Germany to take up a post at the University of Debreczen in Hungary. In France there is the same striving to couple the old traditions, and in particular those connected with the name of Durkheim, with modern social research.
