“The Jew-baiting and the pogrom atmosphere grow day by day. Der Sturmer, Goebbels’ speeches (‘exterminate like fleas and bedbugs!’), acts of violence in Berlin, Breslau, yesterday also here in Prager Strasse. The struggle against Catholics, ‘enemies of the state’, both reactionary and Communistic, is increasing. It is as if the Nazis were being driven toward and prepared to go to any extreme, as if a catastrophe were imminent …
Eva said the latest Jewish snobbery was to sympathize with the Nazis. They spoke ‘without hate’ in fond memory of Thieme. I said, if I had the power, I would have him shot. Kaufmann said of someone or other in Jerusalem: he feels at home and yet previously ‘had been as assimilated as you were, Herr Professor.’ I replied: ‘Were? I am German forever, German ‘nationalist’.” — ‘The Nazis would not concede that.’ — ‘The Nazis are un-German.’ ”
— July 21, 1935
