The Nazi seizure of power destroyed the Weimar constitutional state within months

Evidence

In the summer of 1932, the leadership of the SPD appointed Neumann as official lawyer for the whole party. … In that capacity, he fought with desperate courage as a constitutional lawyer against press restrictions, dispersals of meetings, arrests, sackings of tenured officials, and similar acts of despotism by the governments of Papen, Schleicher and Hitler. Although he was in danger politically and was under threat as a Jew, he remained at his post until 2 May 1933, when the SA occupied our law practice in the Metal Workers’ Building in the Alte Jakobstrasse. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 246

Categorization

• XREF: Dates and institutions here (SPD legal office, Alte Jakobstrasse, 2 May 1933) anchor the institutional chronology of the emigre generation’s forced exit. — connects to: The collapse of the Soviet state dissolved its armed forces within months. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 243; Weimar democracy fell because its constitution aided reactionaries — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 929; The Nazi takeover dismantled Weimar privacy rights within months — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 255 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The collapse of the Soviet state dissolved its armed forces within months. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 243; Weimar democracy fell because its constitution aided reactionaries — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 929; The Nazi takeover dismantled Weimar privacy rights within months — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 255 (+1 more)