Documentation of the Reich Student Leadership-National Socialist German Students' League (Reichsstudentenfuehrung-Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund), Germany, 1927-1944
The National Socialist Students' League was established, in 1926, as a branch of the Nazi Party. It obtained great support among the students, and won the leadership of the National Students Union in Germany, in 1931, increasing in power with the rise of the Nazis to power, and in May 1933, it organized a public book burning campaign which opposed "the German spirit"; in October 1935, the union became the only students' union in...