“Dr. Schacht, don’t take this exceptional incident so seriously,” Sarnoff told him. “I can offer some comfort in this matter. After all, you’re an amateur in the area of prejudice, but I have had two thousand years of experience with it. Besides, your people are not free from such feelings, either.” Schacht bristled. There was no racial prejudice in Germany, he insisted. The conversation had become a minefield, threatening to undo their hard-won progress. But Sarnoff didn’t back down. “Germany is the cradle of anti-Semitism,” he said, citing the burgeoning Nazi movement. As they argued,
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