Editing Marburg (section)

=== Early 20th century ===
[[File:Marburg 30.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Wettergasse in the Old City]]
[[Franz von Papen]], vice-chancellor of Germany in 1934, delivered [[Marburg speech|an anti-Nazi speech]] at the University of Marburg on 17 June.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kershaw |first=Ian |title=Hitler: 1889–1936 |publisher=Norton |isbn=9780393320350 |location=New York |publication-date=1988}}</ref>

From 1942 to 1945, the whole city of Marburg was turned into a hospital, with schools and government buildings turned into wards to augment the existing hospitals. By the spring of 1945, there were over 20,000 patients – mostly wounded German soldiers. As a result of its designation as a hospital city, and because of a lack of important industrial sites, there was not much damage from bombings except along the railroad tracks.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}

In May 1945, the [[Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program|Monuments men]] officer [[Walker Hancock]] set up the first so-called Central Collecting Point in the Marburg State Archives.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rasch |first1=Marco |title=Das Marburger Staatsarchiv als Central Collecting Point |date=2021 |publisher=Hessisches Staatsarchiv |location=Marburg |isbn=978-3-88964-224-0}}</ref> But since the capacity of the archive building was not sufficient to store the many objects and since other collecting points, for example in [[Munich Central Collecting Point|Munich]], had been set up in the [[Allied-occupied Germany|American occupation zone]] in the meantime, the Marburg facility was closed after more than a year in favor of the Wiesbaden Collecting Point. With the relocation of the [[sarcophagus]] of Field Marshal and President [[Paul von Hindenburg]] (1847-1934) to the [[St. Elisabeth's Church (Marburg)|Elisabethkirche]] in August 1946 the project ended.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}} [[Milton Mayer]]'s 1955 book ''[[They Thought They Were Free]]'', which attempted to gage how ordinary German citizens felt about Nazi Germany, used interviews of ten men from Marburg (which it called "Kronenberg") as its case study.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Adler|first=Franz|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2092579|title=They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45. by Milton Mayer|journal=[[American Sociological Review]]|volume=20|issue=5|date=October 1955|pages=595–596|publisher=[[American Sociological Association]]|doi=10.2307/2092579|jstor=2092579}}</ref>