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Germany has now long been engaged in war; six years of a mad dictatorship have isolated the country from all the world’s civilized nations. Just as on 10 November 1938 Jews sat in the dark with their dead among the ruins of their homes, millions of their tormentors now sit in the darkness of their cities and wait anxiously for the bad news from all over the world. The stocks of food and clothing that had been foolishly destroyed a year earlier are now desperately needed by the famished and freezing people. God’s judgement has struck this country, and the angels of law and justice have turned away in horror from this country that six short and yet infinitely long years have cast back into the darkest time of the Middle Ages. God’s punishment will be severe, but just …

(These lines are in the form of a diary begun on the sea voyage to the USA. My intention was to provide a true and accurate description of the events and experiences for my children. I do not intend to publish these pages from my diary.)

Should these lines nonetheless some day be published, then it should be under the pseudonym ‘Spectator’. I expressly ask this because I know that every word of the truth that is published abroad will necessarily have terrible consequences for my Jewish brothers in Germany. And so I ask that my [American] place of residence not be mentioned, for I am sure that even here there are countless informers.