Klemperer – April 1935

“…in every speech Rust [Minister of Education] emphasizes the overcoming of ‘insipid intellectualism,’ the precedence given to ‘physical and character skills,’ the interdiction on compensating for them with ‘purely intellectual accomplisments,’ ‘racial’ selection. — At the psychiatric congress recently, it was said that only now was ‘the Nordic child,’ which previously had been put at a disadvantage to the Jewish child, whose intellect developed more rapidly, coming into its own.

Der Sturmer is displayed at many street corners; there are special bulletin boards, and each one bears a slogan in large letters: ‘The Jews are our misfortune.’ Or: ‘Whoever knows the Jew, knows the devil.’ Etc. When German assassins were recently sentenced to death in Kovno by the Lithuanians there were protest meetings everywhere. The proclamation of the Dolzschen group went: ‘The world must see that the international Jewish rabble cannot provoke us to make war, but that surely we are “a single nation of brothers”.’ ”

— April 17, 1935

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