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not the property of any one woman. He is a Vegetarian, he does not
drink,
he does not smoke, and for countless thousands of German women,
especially
unmarried women, he has become a kind of God. They have his portrait
before
their eyes at work and in their rooms.
 
 
 The men students of the universities are said to be hostile to
the government for the following reasons: They dislike interference
with
their private lives, and those of the higher social classes strongly
resent
the suppression of the old Corps and Burschenschaften. They find the
one
club that the Nazis have set up in place of these others both perfectly
flat
and indirectly obnoxious. They resent the attempts that are made to
regiment
them and to discover their private opinions, and for this reason stay
away
from certain smaller universities where the system for accomplishing
this
sort of thing works smoothly. Also, they have begun rather widely to
see
that their instruction is not only far inferior to what it used to be,
but
much less than adequate to their needs.
 
 
 I attach little importance to what I was told about the attitude
of the top of society, whether big business or old aristocracy, except
that
the trend is unfavorable to Hitler.
 
 
 Coming back now to the professors, who represent the class that I
know best, of whom I saw the largest number and who, knowing more about
me,
were probably most disposed to speak freely, it will perhaps be well to
go into further details. There is, I should think, all but universal
conviction that the German universities have been practically destroyed
as well-balanced, all round institutions of learning and of research.
There is little hope that they can be presently restored to anything
like their former state, and the general attitude is one of deep
depression. The following episode throws light