And he went on, in distinct contrast to the tone of his 1893 report: “There has been no tragedy in modern times equal in its awful effects to the fight on the Jew in Germany. It is an attack on civilization comparable only to such horrors as the Spanish Inquisition and the African Slave trade.”24 This was more than five years before the creation of the first Todeslager, as the Nazis called the camps created specifically for the purposes of mass murder.
