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Rosenstraße in the
city centre with flags
for the Reichstag
elections. End of
March 1936.
replaced by the German Labour Front (DAF), whose goal
was to bring together in a single organisation all “working
Germans”, regardless of their training, social status or actual
profession, and indoctrinate them with Nazi ideology. The
DAF was made particularly attractive by the leisure activities
and holidays offered by its “Strength through Joy” organisation
(“Kraft durch Freude” – KdF). The headquarters of
the Upper Bavarian branch of the DAF were located at
Brienner Straße 26–28 23 , and in 1935 the KdF took over
the business premises and house of the Jewish antiquarian
bookseller Jacques Rosenthal at Brienner Straße 26 24 .
Rosenthal was forced to sell the building to the Reich Lea -
dership of the NSDAP for well below its value.
In 1933 Jewish doctors were deprived
of their licences to practise under health
insurance plans. From 1938 onwards
they were only allowed to practise as
“providers of treatment” for Jewish
patients and not permitted to use the
title “doctor”. The Association of
Health-Fund Physicians of Germany,
which had its Munich headquarters in
the House of German Physicians 25 ,
inaugurated in 1935, and the Asso cia -
tion of National Socialist German
Physicians at Karlstraße 21 28 played
a key role in these measures. The
members of these organisations inclu -
ded not only the ideologues of racially
based medicine but also the advocates
of medical experiments on humans,
forced sterilisation and “eutha nasia”.
The House of Ger man
Physicians: head quarters
of the Associa -
tion of Health-Fund
Physicians of Ger -
many in Brienner
Straße, 1938
56 57