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“Fellow students – the wind of pestilence that is the Jewish Rule is blowing against you!” – These words formed the headline of a leaflet published in 1920, penned by the Heidelberg lecturer Arnold Ruge. Using the example of the "cases" of Arnold Ruge, Philipp Lenard and Emil Gumbel, which caused a sensation far beyond Heidelberg, Klaus-Peter Schroeder exemplifies the path of Heidelberg's Ruperto Carola into the catastrophe of the Third Reich.