The anti-Jewish campaign, he concluded, was caused by a widespread (and, by inference, a not unreasonable) sense that, at a time of high unemployment and economic hardship, ‘the Jew has got a disproportionate share of the “plums”’. Despite having heard in Berlin youths cry out ‘Juden verrecke [death to the Jews]’, Wrench returned to England convinced that the German government was on the brink of dropping its anti-Semitic crusade. ‘The best service we can do the Jews in Germany’, he argued, ‘is to try and maintain an impartial attitude towards Germany and show that we are really desirous of
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