The marginalization of Husserl's work in Germany during World War II:

"2. G. Lehmann (Die deutsche Philosophie der Gegenwart, Stuttgart, 1943) has no chapter on Husserl (but gives an entire chapter to Rosenberg!) and tries to explain the phenomenological philosophy of Aryans like Scheler or Heidegger by a sort of spontaneous generation, or by attaching them directly to the nineteenth century. The name of Husserl is hardly cited; he is cavalierly and scandalously 'liquidated' as an obscure Jewish mystic (!) to whom, as to Spinoza, some have attributed a philosophical importance that he does not have."

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