Schmitt was influential as a conservative or reactionary critic of liberalism, and enthusiast for conflict and antagonism as perennial conditions of politics. A sympathizer with the Nazis, he escaped trial at Nuremberg but was forbidden from teaching thereafter. Before his death he became influential in neo-conservative circles associated with Leo Strauss. Books included Die geistesgeschichtliche Lage des heutigen Parlamentarismus (trs. as The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy, 1985), and Politische Romantik (trs. as Political Romanticism, 1986).