The newly appointed National Socialist functionaries had not yet completed the “cleansing” of the teaching staff and the expulsion of Jewish students in November 1938, when the Nazi Students' Union arbitrarily began the “Aryanization” of the university culture of remembrance against the will of the rector Fritz Knoll: Only a few days before the violent attacks on Jewish citizens during the “Reichspogromnacht”, Nazi students daubed and damaged ten monuments for Jewish professors at the Arkadenhof on November 5, 1938 - or at least those considered as such by the Nazis.
