“THE WAILING WALL IN ÉVIAN” AND KRISTALLNACHT

On February 14, 1933, Ruppin noted two events in his diary: the third (and last) volume of his book The Sociology of the Jews came out in Hebrew, and Hitler became Reichskanzler in Germany. He wrote: It is surely a sign of decline, if a demagogue like Hitler becomes the leader of the German people. Yet the blame is not to be laid only at the Germans, but also at the allies. They should have known that a nation of 65 million, which had been driven to its knees by the Treaty of Versailles, would not accept its defeat for