In 1933, Mannheim was ousted from his professorship under the terms of the anti-Semitic law to purge the civil service and was forced into exile. After fleeing the Nazi regime and settling in Britain, Mannheim became a lecturer in sociology at the London School of Economics, under a program to assist academic exiles.
In 1933 Mannheim was ousted from his professorship under the terms of the anti-Semitic law to purge the civil service and was forced into exile After fleeing the Nazi regime and settling in Britain Mannheim became a lecturer in sociology at the London School of Economics under a program to assist academic exiles