“Hartnacke, Minister of Education, bad enough, but still an educated man, right wing rather than a Nazi, has been ‘discharged’. Mutschmann is his own minister of education and a wild Nazi primary schoolteacher is his commissar. For how many more weeks will I keep my post? — Hitler has proclaimed compulsory military service, the protests of the foreign powers are weak-kneed and they swallow the fait accompli. Result: Hitler’s regime is more stable than ever … In every aspect of the destruction of culture, Jew-baiting, internal tyranny, Hitler rules with ever worse creatures. Rust, the Reich Minister of Education, gave another speech today attacking ‘insipid intellectualism.’ ”
— March 23, 1935
