In 1938 one of the volumes was ready to be published by the Schocken Verlag , but due to Nazi policy all the stock , including her manuscript and many documents were burned during Kristallnacht . Stern was not allowed to visit any public libraries or archives , but got help from several scholars to finish her work . In the introduction of '' Der preussische Staat und die Juden '' Stern mentions that one copy , dealing with the Jews under Frederick the Great , was saved by an anonymous female employee of Schocken publishing company , who came to their apartment in Charlottenburg at the end of November , 1938
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Selma Stern