Since the granting of equal legal rights to the Jews in 1871, Germany was the scene of repeated antisemitic campaigns aimed at counteracting this development. Until the mid-1920s, there was widespread public protest against these campaigns, with above all liberal, Social Democratic, and Jewish organizations—the Association for Defense against Antisemitism, the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith, and both the Social Democratic Party and the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany—playing an important role. In the second half of the 1920s, this protest abated. The failure of resistance to antisemitic agitation in this period was tied to a general decline of liberal forces in Germany, but also to an underestimation of the danger posed by the antisemitic parties and the lack of a new strategy in the face of so-called “Radau” antisemitism, with its violent penchant. Seemingly moderate antisemitic positions, advocating not violence but rather professional discrimination, now increasingly gained ground. In this framework, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party adopted a legalistic course, proposing legal measures for Jewish segregation. When these measures were enacted in the 1930s, they were largely accepted without comment by the non-Jewish German populace. Those intervening in favor of persecuted German Jews in the following years hardly had any supporting structures and acted largely alone.