Our part was much more Nazi than some other parts of Germany.  It started off they came to power on January 30th, 1933, which I remember very well, I was thirteen at the time.  They celebrated their getting power with a torchlight procession which actually came past our house and we watched it from the second floor.  I remember the torchlight procession.

 

Very soon, three days afterwards in February came the Reichstag fire, which nobody still knows how it happened but it was used by the Nazis as a pretext to declare... they suspended Parliamentary democracy, ruled by degree, and that enabled them to progress, banned political parties - progress really started with the Communists but going on with Social Democrats and all the others except their right wing partners. 

 

And them came the first boycott of Jewish shops on the 1st of April 1933, which also included our shops were boycotted, that means black shirts, or brown shirts in those days, were posted outside and stopped people coming in.   There were daubings on the windows about 'Jews get out' and that sort of thing. That lasted just for a day but it was the first time that the world sat up and took notice and realised what was happening. 

And it went on from there, the civil servants were excluded, teachers were excluded, gradually were were excluded from all the associations, sports clubs, social clubs, anything else, and it developed over the five years, progressively worse.