“In 1935,” Fritz says, “the order came to raise the swastika flag in the courtyard of the Cape Town consulate. This was one part of a Nazi decree demanding that all German foreign missions start dealing with the Jewish Question. Such madness hadn’t begun gradually. It had hit like a bombshell with the Enabling Act in 1933. Once that law passed there was no holding back. That was when the delusions of grandeur started. The hysterics. The idiocy.”
