In 1934 he was appointed chief of staff of the 3rd Infantry Division and the Chief of Staff at the same time the 3rd Military Region (Berlin). That same year, he incurred the wrath of the Nazis, opposing discrimination of Jewish soldiers. However, thanks to the patronage of General Werner von Fritsch (commander in chief of the Army) no measures were taken against Manstein, despite the insistence of the Minister of War, General Werner von Blomberg and General Werner von Reichenau (representative of the Nazi Party in the War Ministry) to punish him to the fullest extent . In 1935 he was appointed head of the operations department of the General Staff, Major General (1936). Since 1937, the 1st Quartermaster General of the General Staff (1st Deputy Chief of General Staff). During "General cleaning" (February 1938), dismissed (because of their demarche in 1934 on the "Jewish question" Manstein was in the "black list" of Hitler).