Discusses the behaviour of German society toward the Jews under National Socialism. States that neither antisemitism nor dictatorial pressure alone explains the dynamism in the rapid social exclusion of Jews. Intead, the process of persecution should be understood as a dynamic interaction between state and society - one that was shaped by four determinant factors: antisemitism, the conforming of personal interests to the norms propagated by the Nazi regime, the activation of social interests (in Particular by the economic exclusion of Jews) and the growing consensual support for the regime after 1933