ocr: Pessimism & Self- Censorship The authors of articles in the Jewish-German press during the Nazi era were afraid to express their feelings because of - the vigilant surveillance of the German censor. Nevertheless when they felt free to speak openly, some expressed much more pessimistic evaluations of the situation. On 27 March 1933, a delegation representing German Jewish leadership met with a group of British Jewish leaders and representatives of world Jewish organizations in London. In a closed session the German Jewish delegation gave such a gloomy report, that their counterparts found it ha ...