ABSTRACT
After 1930 terror reigned in the streets of the big cities, tussles between the Nazis and the Communists were frequent and the police were powerless or unwilling to stop them. However, very little of all this reached the peaceful town of Gottingen, and most professors did not seem to show interest in it. Yet this was a delusion, for after Hitler's rise to power it turned out that a considerable number of the university staff were supporters of the Nazi party. As for himself, author had been worried about the political happenings all the time. He attended political meetings and, on one occasion, stepped in when a crowd of citizens and students became turbulent. This was when the well-known journalist Georg Bernhard, chief political leader writer of old liberal newspaper Vossische Zeitung, had been invited by a left-wing student group to speak in the big Stadtpark hall. The meeting got out of hand when Bernhard attacked Hitler and the Nazis.
