"Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words."
"Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich."
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Source: Sir Arthur Bryant, Adolf Hitler (1940). “Unfinished victory”
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