attitude of Germans towards me and the very few Negroes who happened to be visiting them,’ he wrote to the secretary of the Jewish American Committee. ‘Theoretically their attitude towards Negroes is just as bad as towards Jews, and if there were any number of Negroes in Germany, would be expressed in the same way.’ Nevertheless, his trip had convinced him that, in contrast to their attitude to Jews, ordinary Germans were not naturally colour prejudiced.
