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201.	Banker Kurt Baron von Schröder’s Report on a Meeting between Hitler and Franz von Papen at Schroeder’s House in Cologne on January 4, 1933 (Retrospective Account from the Postwar Period) Franz von Papen had Reichswehr Minister Kurt von Schleicher to thank for his chancellorship. At first, Schleicher used his position as a gray eminence to operate in a background role. But when Papen....
202.	Otto Meissner, State Secretary in the Office of the Reich President, on the Developments Leading to Hitler’s Appointment (Retrospective Account, November 28, 1945) Over the course of January 1933, Reich Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher became – politically speaking – increasingly boxed in. Schleicher had previously pursued a Querfront strategy, attempting....
203.	Carl Schwabe on his Life in Germany before Hitler’s Seizure of Power (Retrospective Account, 1939)
204.	Hamburg Schoolteacher Louise Solmitz on Hitler’s Seizure of Power (January-February 1933) Hamburg schoolteacher Louise Solmitz’s enthusiastic response to the news that a cabinet of “national” concentration had been formed with Hitler as chancellor was characteristic of the attitude of....
205.	Betty Scholem to her Son Gershom on the Situation in Germany (February-March 1933) After Hitler was appointed chancellor, Jews in many German towns became the target of random violence carried out by members of the SA and the NSDAP. In addition, Jewish homes and stores were vandalized.....
206.	Albert Krebs on Young NSDAP Activists (Retrospective Account, 1959) Even contemporaries perceived the NSDAP as a particularly youthful political party, and were thoroughly justified in doing so. In 1930, 36.8% of party members and 26.2% of party leaders were thirty....
207.	Emil Schorsch on his Duties as a Rabbi in Hannover (Retrospective Account, 1975)
208.	Gershom Scholem on his Brother Werner (Retrospective Account, 1977) Arthur and Betty Scholem’s four sons testify to the range of political inclinations among German Jews. Reinhold, the oldest (1891-1985), was a member of the national liberal German People’s Party....
209.	Gershom Scholem on his Decision to Emigrate in 1923 (Retrospective Account, 1977) The vast majority of the 564,400 Jews living in Germany in 1925 had liberal attitudes and were well represented by the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith [Centralverein....
210.	Gershom Scholem on the Atmosphere in Munich in the Early 1920s (Retrospective Account, 1977) As a reaction to Anti-Semitism, Zionism propagated a return to the traditional values of Judaism, Jewish self-confidence, preparation for emigration (above all, through agricultural training), and....
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