“I then asked her, since she had just come from Berlin and was relating how the very young Jewish generation had left the country, what people there in her circle thought about the situation. Prompt reply: they believe the worst is over; if there are agreements on tariffs, things will improve again. That means: these people are happy if they can look forward to the consolidation of the Hitler regime and an end to the foreign boycott. They may be forced back into the ghetto, may be kicked and humiliated, their children may have lost their homeland — but as long as they can do business again, ‘the worst is over’. It is so infinitely shameless and dishonorable that one could almost sympathize with the National Socialists. Afterward Eva said that some people let themselves be hit in the face with toilet brushes without taking offense. To me it seems like atavism, a return to the medieval ghetto.”
— Feb. 24, 1934
