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“In order to estimate properly the really pernicious influence which the Press can exercise one had to study this infamous Jewish method whereby honourable and decent people were besmirched with mud and filth, in the form of low abuse and slander… These highway robbers would grab at anything which might serve their evil ends.”

“And so I believe to-day that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the handiwork of the Lord.”

“But a Jew can never be rescued from his fixed notions.”

“My ideas about anti-Semitism changed also in the course of time, but that was the change which I found most diffi-cult. It cost me a greater internal conflict with myself, and it was only after a struggle between reason and sentiment that victory began to be decided in favour of the former.
Two years later sentiment rallied to the side of reason and became a faithful guardian and counsellor.”

“During the first weeks of my sojourn my eyes and my mind were unable to cope with the onrush of new ideas and values. Not until I gradually settled down to my surroundings, and the confused picture began to grow clearer, did I acquire a more discriminating view of my new world. And with that I came up against the Jewish problem.”

“Knowledge of the Jews is the only key whereby one may understand the inner nature and therefore the real aims of Social Democracy.”

“First, I became a nationalist.
Second I learned to understand and grasp the true meaning of history.”

“I think that an inborn talent for speaking now began to develop and take shape during the more or less strenuous arguments which I used to have with my comrades. I had become a juvenile ring-leader who learned well and easily at school but was rather difficult to manage.”