This report on the various workings of the "Central Committee for Assistance and Structure", is accompanied by a letter on official letterhead stationary from the "Central Committee for Assistance and Structure", dated February 15, 1937 and signed by Dr. Friedrich Brodnitz. The letter is addressed to Morris C. Troper of Loeb & Troper in New York City. Mr. Troper was the European Director of the American Jewish (Joint) Distribution Ccmmittee (JDC).

In the period following the 1933 rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi Party, many laws were passed which restricted the employment opportunities available to Jews (among many other restrictions). These "Nuremberg" laws severely limited jobs, schooling, places which could be visited, etc. The Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland was a framework organization of all Jews. Priority was now to prepare the German Jews for a new kind of the life. It was an organization which could represent all Jews and negotiate with the authorities.

A first step for the emergence of a Jewish controlling body was the establishment of the “central committee for assistance and structure” on 13 April 1933. In it for the first time the large Jewish organizations agreed to cooperate: the central association of German citizens of Jewish faith, the Zionist organization, the auxiliary association of the German Jews, the Jewish women, the Prussian regional organization of Jewish municipalities, the Jewish municipality Berlin and the orthodox Agudas Israel. The central committee remained until 1935 formally independently. Its most important task saw the central committee spreading the idea of the solidarity and self-help within the Jewish community. It engaged itself in the Wohlfahrtspflege, economic aid, occupation regrouping, public education as well as the preparation and organizing of the emigration. The work was financed by donations, the Jewish municipalities and allowances of foreign relief organizations. The first president was R. Leo Baeck, who was considered as integration figure of the German Jews.