Letter of Wilhelm von Buelow of the Foreign Office To Vicco von Buelow-Schwante, 23 March 1933
Source: Christopher R. Browning, 'The Government Experts', in: Henry Friedlander and Sybil Milton, The Holocaust: Ideology, Bureaucracy and Genocide, (Milwood 1980) p. 187.
For the directors and myself, eventually also for the missions [abroad], it would be good as support for conversations with diplomats and foreigners to assemble some material that elucidates the causes of the anti-Semitic movement in Germany.... I have always pointed out to diplomats the strong influx of Eastern Jews, as well as their naturalisation in mass by the Socialist Prussian government. Numbers pertaining to it must be available. Furthermore, I have stated that, for example, the entire city administration and city hospital [staffs] were swamped with Jews. I believe that is correct and can also be proved. Furthermore, perhaps a large percentage of Jews in the Communist caucus of the first Reichstag can be demonstrated. Certainly there are also blatant examples for the advancement of Jews in law, universities, schools, etc., since 1918.
