After the war Germany lay in ruins, and under the Nazis 'racist policies there had been no place for experts in sinological research. Many sinologists went abroad, creating a dearth of scholars qualified to take over from the older generation.
戰後，德國地區一片焦土，百廢待興，尤其納粹黨當權時代的種族歧視政策，研究漢學的專家無立足之地，許多漢學家出走他國，造成後繼無人的局面。