Note 36
From Professor NSDAP by Joachim C. Fest — See further Notes

36 Thomas Mann, den an Deutschland. Tagebuchblatter aus den Jahren 1933 und 1934 1. XII of Gesammelte Werke. See also the case reported by Konrad Heiden in Adolf Hitler, Vol. II, of a celebrated art historian and museum director of a large South German town who, after a reprimand by the party, declared the treatment was perhaps not fair but had been necessary, and looking back over his past said, 'We should have been led.'