ABSTRACT
On January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany, more students and professors at the Mathematical Institute were seen wearing swastikas and brown shirts. On March 13, Hitler pushed his Enabling Act through the Reichstag-the parliament-giving him power independent of the Reichstag and demanding a nationwide boycott of Jewish businesses a few weeks later. On April 7, the Reichsgesetzeimperial law-decreed that non-Aryans (German Jews or other unwelcome minorities) would no longer be allowed to work as civil servants. Since university professors were classifi ed as civil servants, they too were targeted. Although the imperial law specifi cally excepted anyone who had fought for Germany or its allies in World War I , even that exception was not honored.
