Thomas Mann an Alice Lloyd

Dankt für die freundlichen Bemerkungen zu seinem Artikel ›Culture and Politics‹ im ›Survey Graphic‹. Äußert sich zu ihrer Frage, was die Juden getan hätten, um in Hitler solch einen Hass und Rache zu erwecken: »If we believe that Hitler is a rational human being we can only think that he seeks to place on the Jews the blame for the follies and iniquities of his own regime. If we believe him to be an unbalanced mind then we must take into account the predisposition of certain types of persons suffering from mental disorders to deem themselves persecuted by the very persons least able to do so.«