“In the 1930s there was no strong middle-class liberal party in Germany - the lack of such a party has more than once been one of the disasters of German political development. The middle-class parties had suffered a more severe loss of votes to the Nazis than any other German parties.” “In 1932-3 the Centre Party was so far from recognizing the danger of the Nazi dictatorship that it continued to negotiations for a coalition with the Nazis and voted for the Enabling Act which conferred overriding powers on Hitler after he had become Chancellor.” On April 1, 1933, just one week after the Enabling Act, a national boycott of Jewish shops and department stores was organized by Nazis under the direction of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. The boycott was claimed to be in reaction to unflattering newspaper stories appearing in Britain and America concerning Hitler’s new regime. The Nazis assumed most journalists were either Jewish or sympathetic to Jews and thus they labeled the bad publicity as “atrocity propaganda” spread by “international Jewry.” “The boycott of Jewish stores in April 1933 marked the beginning of a downward spiral for Jews that would eventually end in the gas chambers at Auschwitz.” The boycott was followed by a series of laws and decrees which robbed the Jews of one right after another. There would be, in the twelve years of Hitler's Reich, more than 400 laws and decrees targeting Jews alone. Six days after the boycott, "The Law of the Restoration of the Civil Service" was introduced which made "Aryanism" a necessary requirement to hold a civil service position. All Jews holding such positions were dismissed or forced into early retirement. On April 22, Jews were prohibited from serving as patent lawyers and from serving as doctors in State-run insurance institutions. Not only were Jewish adults suffering many laws were passed preventing Jewish children from attending German schools. On May 6, the Civil Service Law was amended to close loopholes in order to keep out honorary university professors, lecturers and notaries. On September 28, all non-Aryans and their spouses were prohibited from government employment, as well from cultural and entertainment activities. “On June 30, 1934 at around 10:00 a.m. Hitler unleashed a wave of murderous violence by the SS in Berlin and 20 other cities. SS execution squads along with the Gestapo and Goring’s private police roared through the streets hunting down SA leaders and anyone else on the prepared enemies’ list.” On August 2, 1934,

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