When 1937 rolled around the Aryanization of the economy started when Jewish business owners were forced to sell their businesses, in most cases at proces considerably below their valus. Additionally, Jews were prohibited from working in any office in Germany.
Buchenwald concentration camp opened and yhe first 300 prisoners arrived on July 16. By the end of the month, there were 1,000 inmates and the number climed to 80,000 in March 1945.
While that was happening in Germany, in the U.S. the Neutrality Act of 1935 expire, but it’s replacement did include a concession to President Roosevelt that permits Allied nations to pay cash for American goods and then transport the goods in their own ships.
Roosevelt tried to warn the world of the growing threat to international security that was being jeopardized, but he was accused or trying to circumvent the neutrality laws of America.
In late 1937, Germany and Japan signed a military pact. Anf the Japanese Army launched the massacre of Nanking and ot’s estimated that over 300,00 people were brutally murdered.
Against that backdrop a long forgotten small and unimportant double round tournament was played in the three cities of Bad Nauheim, Stuttgart and Garmisch. 
The four players were the world champion Max Euwe, former world champion Alexander Alekhine, former world champion challenger Efim Bogoljubow and German champion Friedrich Saemisch. Shortly after this event, Alekhine won a rematch against Euwe for the world championship.
Max Euwe–Efim Bogoljubov0–1E36Bad Nauheim-Stuttgart-Garmisch526.07.1937Stockfish 17
E36: Nimzo-Indian Defense 1.d4 f6 2.c4 e6 3.c3 b4 4.c2 This game was played in the early days of the Nimzo and at the time this was the most popular move; today it's considered the Classical (or Capablanca) Variation which has largely been replaced by the Rubinstein Variation *4.e3. In this Classical line white plans to acquire the two Bs without getting doubled c-Pawns. Even though white ains the two Bs black should open the game quickly to exploit their lead in development. d5 Black immediately plays in the center. 5.a3 e7 A rare sideline that statistically has not worked well for black, so 5...Bxc3 us better. 6.g5 h6 7.h4 Oddly, in my ChessBase opening database this is the main line, but Stockfish's first coice is 7.Bxf6 bd7 8.e3 0-0 9.f3 c6 Black would get more play with 9...c5 10.d1 e8 10...b6 11.e2 b7 12.0-0 dxc4 13.xc4 c5 14.dxc5 c8 is about even. Gurevich,D (2540)-Kasimdzhanov,R (2565) Dordrecht 1998 11.g3 d6 12.c5 f5 13.f4 b6 14.b4 bxc5 15.bxc5 a5 16.d3 h4 17.xh4 xh4 18.d6 It's rather unusual to see a B rather than a N on such an advanced outpost. e8 19.0-0 e5 Rather than this advance black should have challenges the B on d6 with 19...Be7 with equal chance. Now after all the jockying for position of the last several moves white now gets a nore active position. 20.h7+ h8 21.f5 exd4 22.exd4 f8 23.xc8 axc8 24.d3 f6 25.fd1 e6 Threatening the d-Pawn. 26.e2 This is a serious tactical blunder. Now it's Black To Play And Win. 26.h3 and white has nothing to worry about; black can only mark time with moves like 26...h5 or 26...Kh8, but he should avoid xd4 27.xd4 xd4 28.xd4 when altgough the winning process was long and arduous white scored 5-0 in Shootouts. xa3 26...xd4 Taking advantage of white's weak back rank. 27.xd4 27.d2 xe2+ 28.f1 c3 Black has won a piece. 29.xc3 xc3 30.xc3 xc3 27...xd4 28.xd4 White is lost, but this gross oversight allows a rare occurrence in play at this level...a checkmate e1# Of all the World Chapions Euwe pribably had more games containing gross blunders like in this game than any of them. Even so, Chessmetrics estimated him to have been the world's #1 ranked player for 14 different months in 1936 and 1937. 0–1
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