Deeply shocked, Rumbold described to his son how groups of young Nazis had smashed the windows of Jewish shops, among them the famous department stores Wertheim and Tietz. Sir Horace clearly saw no contradiction between his very real distress at such conduct and the casual anti-Semitism in which he, like so many of his class and generation, regularly indulged. ‘I am appalled by the number of Jews in this place,’ he had written to his predecessor, Sir Ronald Lindsay,
