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Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
Easter Sunday, April 16, 1933
Dear Mr. Viereck
You have sent me the message of the former German Crown Prince and your letter to the New York Herald Tribune without
adding any personal note. I assume you expect a comment from me. This I would not have withheld and it would have become quite extensive were I not concerned that you might somehow use it for publicity. I will therefore confine myself to a few remarks which, meant for you alone, will defy publication. I will just say I regret that you have debased yourself by siding with those wretched lies as expressed in your royal cousin's letter.
To judge the case it is sufficient to pick out three pronouncements: the Crown Prince's assurance that no one in Germany has “to suffer injustice on account of his religion”; your own admission that “if those who wish to purge their country of such elements invoke racial or religious prejudice, they are guilty of the same fault as those to whose course they take exception,” and N. Chamberlain's plain statement that he is not concerned with the alleged atrocities but is going by the official announcements and measures taken by the [National Socialist] movement.
With deep regret
Freud