ABSTRACT
During the years 1930-1933 Hitler's struggle for power was going on with increasing intensity. When the number of Nazis in parliament increased, author was dejected. But though there was in his mind a permanent feeling of impending doom, our life went on quite normally and gaily. Their house was quieter than it had been, since both our daughters were at the boarding school at Salem founded by Kurt Hahn, my friend from student days. On 30 January 1933, Hitler became Chancellor, and on the following day there was a torchlight procession of the Nazis in Gottingen. On 26 February there was the fire in the Reichstag building. On the next day the right of free expression of opinion, guaranteed in the Weimar constitution, was cancelled by decree. On 3 March there was a new election for the Reichstag which brought Hitler no majority, but with the help of the German Nationalist party he was able to govern.
