“I am not writing a history of the times here. But I shall nevertheless record my embitterment, greater than I would have imagined I was still capable of feeling. It is a disgrace, which gets worse with every day that passes. And there’s not a sound from anyone and everyone’s keeping his head down, Jewry most of all and their democratic press. One week after Hitler’s appointment we were at the Blumenfelds with Raab. Raab, busybody, political economist, chairman of the Humboldt Club, made a big speech and declared it was necessary to vote for the German Nationals, so as to strengthen the right wing of the coalition. I vehemently took issue with him. More interesting his opinion that Hitler will end in religious madness … what is strangest of all is how one is blind in the face of events, how no one has a clue to the real balance of power. Who will have the majority on March 5? Will the terror be tolerated and for how long?”
— Feb. 21, 1933
“Will the terror be tolerated and for how long.” Chilling, in history’s light.
I know. And he wrote that only in 1933 … there were so many more years of it to go. Horrifying.
But he did, indeed, survive.