J-P Mayer wrote a 1944 critique of Max Weber, entitled "Max Weber and German Politics: a study in political sociology". Published in England during the war, this work never appeared in German translation. Mayer had been an archivist for the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the primary book reviewer for the "Vorwärts", the SPD party paper. He was a target of Nazi persecution, from which he escaped to England. There he became involved with the Labour Party and was a member of the faculty at the London School of Economics during the last part of the Second World War.