Although condemning unreservedly the regime’s treatment of Jews, he tried to put it in context. On returning to England in April, he reported that many of his German friends were convinced that their government’s anti-Semitism would soon pass. They had been keen to remind Wrench that Germany had just undergone an almost bloodless revolution and, naturally at such times, ‘as you English know from history’, regrettable things happened.
Jews expected antisemitism to pass.
