Traces the antecedents of Nazism in the Protestant university town of Marburg from 1880-1935, focusing on the ideological, apolitical, voluntary organizations. Pp. 63-70 describe the activities of Otto Böckel, Marburg's representative from 1887-1903, whose Central German Peasants Association exploited the antisemitic prejudice of rural Hesse. Ch. 5 (pp. 179-208), "From Stammtisch to Party: Nazism to 1933", describes how after successes in the early 1920s in coalition with the antisemitic Völkisch Party of Ludendorff, the Nazi Party declined to a group of marginal agitators in 1929. The Depression, working class weakness, and the strength of bourgeois non-party organizations led to the revival in 1930 and 1933. Examines Nazi antisemitic policy in the university and in the economic sector. Notes that the Confessing Church was a center of resistance to Nazism.