“I told him the Jewish problem must be solved in a different way; that German exports would continue to fall if the ruthlessness were not abandoned; and that the belligerent tone of German conduct would almost certainly lead to international boycott. I concluded: The Nazis do not seem to me to know what are the natural consequences of ruthless procedure.”
William E. Dodd, United States Ambassador to Germany, Ambassador Dodd’s Diaries, August 9, 1933