A muted protest in war-time Berlin - writing on the legal position of German Jewry throughout the centuries: Leo Baeck - Leopold Lucas - Hilde Ottenheimer

The massive propaganda efforts of the Nazis had eliminated most positive portrayals of the Jew and Jewish life within the universities.The attempt to place the Jew into the framework of European law throughout the centuries can be viewed as an attempt at self-justification which might escape the attention of a government more concerned with challenges to its authority