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171.	Franz Schulz, "Film Critique" (1929)
172.	Course of the Great Depression (1929-36)
173.	Arnold Schönberg, "My Public" (1930) In the following 1930 text, Austrian composer Arnold Schönberg, the inventor of twelve-tone technique, subtly exaggerates his outsider status. At the same time, he downplays the difficulties the....
174.	Ernst von Salomon, "We and the Intellectuals" (1930)
175.	Grete Ujhely, "A Call for Sexual Tolerance" (1930) Austrian-born writer and journalist Margaret (Grete) Ujhaly (1903-1997) penned this “call” for Der Querschnitt [The Cross Section], a zeitgeist magazine geared towards an intellectual....
176.	Memorandum of the Prussian Ministry of the Interior on Nazi Agitation (May 1930) In late April 1930, Joseph Goebbels became Reich propaganda leader. He went on to devise a propaganda strategy that helped turn the Nazi party into a mass movement. In this memorandum from May 1930,....
177.	Betty Scholem on the Depression (August 1931) In the second half of 1931, a banking crisis exacerbated the already dire economic situation in Germany. The bankruptcy of Nordwolle, a wool and yarn producer in Bremen, created enormous difficulties....
178.	George Grosz, "Among Other Things, a Word for German Tradition" (1931)
179.	Hans Harmsen, "Contemporary Questions of Eugenics" (1931) Hans Harmsen (1899-1989), a physician known for advocating eugenics, examined the issue of public welfare from the perspective of racial hygiene. This 1931 speech was the opening address at a conference....
180.	Hans Ostwald, "A Moral History of the Inflation" (1931) Witnesses to the inflation such as Thomas Mann, Stefan Zweig, and Elias Canetti characterized it as a witches’ Sabbath. Likewise, the journalist and writer Hans Ostwald described it as a “hellish....
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