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===Early career=== Gadamer [[habilitation|habilitated]] in 1929 and spent most of the early 1930s lecturing in Marburg. Unlike Heidegger, who joined the [[Nazi Party]] in May 1933 and continued as a member until the party was dissolved following World War II, Gadamer was silent on [[Nazism]], and he was not politically active during [[Nazi Germany|Nazi rule]]. Gadamer did not join the Nazis, and he did not serve in the army because of the polio he had contracted in 1922. He joined the [[National Socialist Teachers League]] in August 1933.<ref>Ideologische Mächte im deutschen Faschismus Band 5: Heidegger im Kontext: Gesamtüberblick zum NS-Engagement der Universitätsphilosophen, George Leaman, Rainer Alisch, Thomas Laugstien, Verlag: Argument Hamburg, 1993, p. 105, {{ISBN|3886192059}}</ref> In 1933 Gadamer signed the ''[[Vow of allegiance of the Professors of the German Universities and High-Schools to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialistic State]]''. In April 1937 he became a temporary professor at Marburg,{{sfn|Cesare|2007|p=17}} then in 1938 he received a professorship at [[Leipzig University]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Dostal|first=Robert|title=The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Byz-nfrKQkC&pg=PA21|year=2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0521000416|page=20}}</ref> From an ''[[Schutzstaffel|SS]]''-point of view Gadamer was classified as neither supportive nor disapproving in the "''SD-Dossiers über Philosophie-Professoren"'' (i.e. SD-files concerning philosophy professors) that were set up by the [[Sicherheitsdienst|''SS''-Security-Service (SD)]].<ref>Leaman, Georg / Simon, Gerd: Deutsche Philosophen aus der Sicht des Sicherheitsdienstes des Reichsführers SS. Jahrbuch für Soziologie-Geschichte 1992, pages 261–292</ref> In 1946, he was found by the American occupation forces to be untainted by Nazism and named rector of the university.<!-- Please add this bit of the German Wikipedia properly into the article. Thanks. (But cf. German Wikipedia article, which notes [citing Ernst Klee: ''Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945'', Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Zweite aktualisierte Auflage, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 172] that on Nov. 11th, 1933 he signed the "declaration of loyalty to Adolf Hitler;" in 1937 he received a professorship in Marburg; in 1939 he became a full professor and director of an institute in Leipzig; and during the war he was involved in the "Humanities' contribution to the war effort" project: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Georg_Gadamer.) --> The level of Gadamer's involvement with the Nazis has been disputed in the works of [[Richard Wolin]]<ref>Richard Wolin, ‚Nazism and the complicities of Hans-Georg Gadamer. Untruth and Method', ''The New Republic'', 15 May 2000, pp. 36–45</ref> and Teresa Orozco.{{sfn|Orozco|1995}} Orozco alleges, with reference to Gadamer's published works, that Gadamer had supported the Nazis more than scholars had supposed. Gadamer scholars have rejected these assertions: [[Jean Grondin]] has said that Orozco is engaged in a "witch-hunt"{{sfn|Grondin|2003|p=165}} while [[Donatella Di Cesare]] said that "the archival material on which Orozco bases her argument is actually quite negligible".{{sfn|Cesare|2007|p=30}} Cesare and Grondin have argued that there is no trace of [[antisemitism]] in Gadamer's work, and that Gadamer maintained friendships with Jews and provided shelter for nearly two years for the philosopher [[Jacob Klein (philosopher)|Jacob Klein]] in 1933 and 1934.{{sfn|Grondin|2003|pp=153–154}} Gadamer also reduced his contact with Heidegger during the Nazi era.{{sfn|Cesare|2007|pp=14–15}}
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