After the seizure of power by the NSDAP , boycotts of Jewish shops , the desecration and destruction of the monument dedicated to the Jewish professor and Erlangen honorary citizen Jakob Herz on Hugenottenplatz and the burning of books also took place in Erlangen . The NSDAP-controlled city council made Chancellor Hitler , President von Hindenburg and Gauleiter Streicher honorary citizens , the main street was renamed Adolf-Hitler-Straße ( " Adolf-Hitler-Street " ) . During the Reichspogromnacht the Jewish families from Erlangen ( between 42 and 48 persons ) , Baiersdorf ( three persons ) and Forth ( seven persons ) were rounded up and humiliated in the courtyard of the former town hall ( Palais Stutterheim ) , their flats and shops partly destroyed and plundered , then the women and children were taken to the Wöhrmühle ( an island in the Regnitz river in Erlangen ) , the men to the district court prison and then to Nuremberg to prison . Those who could not leave Germany in the following wave of emigration were deported to concentration camps , where most died . In 1944 the city was declared " free of Jews " , although a " Half-Jew " stayed in town until the end of the war , protected by the police chief
Reichspogromnacht
Kristallnacht
Erlangen