The German Student Union (, abbreviated ''DSt'') from 1919 until 1945, was the merger of the general student committees of all German universities, including Danzig,

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and the former German universities in

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. The DSt was founded during the

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period as a democratic representation of interests. It experienced serious internal conflicts in the early 1920s between the Republican minority and the völkisch majority wing. It was dominated from 1931 onward by the

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, which was merged on 5 November 1936 under Gustav Adolf Scheel with the DSt, Here: p.550 played a large part in the

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and was eventually banned in 1945 as a Nazi organization. On 6 May 1933, members of the DSt made an organised attack on the Institute of Sex Research in

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's Tiergarten area. A few days later, the institute's library and archives were hauled out and burned in the streets of the Opernplatz. Around 20,000 books and journals, and 5,000 images, were destroyed.

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