“Deepest depression, even deeper than in August at Hindenburg’s death. The 90 percent vote in the Saar is really not only a vote for Germany, but literally for Hitler’s Germany. Goebbels is surely right in that. After all there was no lack of information, counterpropaganda, free ballot. Presumably, when we talk about disaffection, we take our pipe dreams for truth and utterly overestimate the actual opposition. In the Reich too 90 percent want the Fuhrer and servitude and the death of scholarship, of thought, of the spirit, of the Jews. I said: Let’s wait and see, whether, now that foreign policy is no longer important, the turn to the Right begins. I shall not admit defeat before Easter. But I do not believe my own words.”
— Jan. 16, 1935
