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Resistance See other Resistance Articles Title: Touring Munich, Taking Surprising Notes at the National Socialist Documentation Centre A couple years ago, I was in Munich and at one point paid a visit to the National Socialist (NS) Documentation Centre. Obviously, this is an enormous topic, so this article focuses on my notes of the peacetime period between 1933 and 1938 in Bavaria, which was the birthplace the Hitlerian movement. The following video clip shows the Munich Konigplatz-Ehrentempel- Fuhrerbau complex, the site of the white modern cubed documentation center then and now. Evident at the center’s display was the fact that for 14 years before coming to power in 1933, the NS had been embroiled in an epic political, cultural and social struggle with various leftist factions, including anarcho-communists or anti-fa of the kind showing up in the current year. There were also political opponents among the faux-democracy elements, typically Social Democrats. The Centre did an incredible job of providing the historical background and documents of the 1918-1933 situation in Munich. My focus during my visit was on how the NS dealt with political opponents upon coming to power. On March 9-10, 1933, the NS seized control of the police and key parts of the judiciary in Munich. However, in the initial takeover, only 4.5% of Munich’s civil servants were fired. Munich’s government at that point was already right-leaning with some NS in place through earlier democratic processes. It wasn’t until July 1934 that a larger firing in the Munich civil service was conducted, removing 83 civil servants and 250 city employees. This was mostly a standard spoils system move to reward and replace with loyal NS. Consisting of 10% of the public service of Germany, Jews at 0.8% of the population were 1250% over-represented. But dismissals were slow to develop even there, with some occurring beginning in July, 1934. The Nuremberg law required Jewish officials to retire as of December 31, 1935. This clean sweep was almost three years after the NS assumed power. In the event that such officials served at the front in the Great War, either for Germany or for her allies, they would receive their full pension. Roughly half of Munich’s 7000 Jews left the country without interference between 1933-1939. During the war years most of the remainder were interned in Thereseinstadt in Bohemia. Many in turn died in the typhus epidemic that overtook that city (Jewish Telegraph Agency) in 1945 as supplies ran out and conditions badly deteriorated at the end of the war. The documentation for this outcome comes from the Centre...... Poster Comment: Not what one would expect at all. Have some sector or grouping of Germans worked a small pocket of reality into the middle of Munich, right where Sudetenland was ceded -- oy vay -- to Germany??? Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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