Photocard published by A. Lengauer, Miinchen.
Franked with Sc 422 and posted 17 August 1937 at Postamt Miinchen, Station “b.” The publicity cancel is for the International Leipzig Fair, 29 August through 2 September 1937.
When Reich Education Minister Rust asked the eminent Gottingen mathematician, David Hilbert, if his institute had suffered as a result of the departure of the Jews and their friends, the professor replied, “Suffered? No, it hasn’t suffered, Herr Minister, it just doesn’t exist any more.”
A prime function of the powerful National Socialist Lecturer’s Association (NS-Dozentenbund) was the selection and training of university personnel. It had severe shortcomings, however. In 1937, Professor Ernst Krieck, an early NS convert, surprised academics by publicizing his grave concern about the future supply of professors, in terms both of quantity and of quality. University rectors tried to exculpate themselves by emphasizing a decline of standards among students. The NS Students’ Association denied this, and quoted a certain amount of evidence to the contrary, whereupon the rectors issued a heretical but irrefutable rejoinder to the effect that the achievements of which the students’ association boasted rested on foundations laid before 1933.