Documentation of the Reich Student Leadership-National Socialist German Students' League (Reichsstudentenfuehrung-Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund), Germany, 1927-1944 The National Socialist Students' League was established, in 1926, as a branch of the Nazi Party. It obtained great support among the students, and won the leadership of the National Students Union in Germany, in 1931, increasing in power with the rise of the Nazis to power, and in May 1933, it organized a public book burning campaign which opposed "the German spirit"; in October 1935, the union became the only students' union in Germany, after all the other student unions were disbanded or merged with the National Socialist Students' Union. In 1936, Gustav Scheel was appointed head of the Union and "Reich student leader" (Reichsstudentenfuehrer). The majority of the collection: Documents relating to the policy towards Jewish students, instructors and Mischlinge in various institutions of higher learning in the Reich and excerpts of antisemitic propaganda.