German Student Union
During the Great Depression since 1929 the circulation rose by almost 50%, the number of users by 30%. Right after the Nazis' takeover of power their newspapers started an inflammatory propaganda against – what they called – subversive literature among the public libraries holdings. On 6 April 1933 leading members of the German Student Union had announced book burnings, conducted in many German university cities on 10 May. Following the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service of 7 April the Library No. I lost Else Simon, who was fired for being Jewish, as was Wormann, director of all the Kreuzberg public libraries. Simon later perished in Auschwitz. The directorate remained vacant, so that the collaboration between the Kreuzberg public libraries loosened. Only in 1948 the position of a head of all Kreuzberg public libraries was restaffed, however, provisionally only.