seems that this unhappiness and uncertainty made Heinrich vulnerable to the anti-semitic myths, for by the summer of 1922 he had succumbed. Two years earlier, he had described Die Sünde wider das Blut as ‘tendentious’, its author blinded by his hatred of Jews, and he had felt inclined to investigate the sources. The sources were provided in Judas Schuldbuch and he was satisfied they were a ‘marvellous collection’. Chamberlain’s pamphlet had moved him to execrate ‘This atrocious Jewry’. He was able to admire the Jewish dancer’s qualities of loyalty yet when in June a terror squad murdered the
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