25
NAZI MOVEMENT APPROVED
The New Guard leader, sportily clad in tweed and a cap, pooh-poohed the idea of German ‘atrocities’ against Jews. “All I saw of Jews in Germany five weeks ago was a crowd of fat, well-dressed men eating well at expensive restaurants,” he said. “To talk of ‘persecution’ is laughable.”
The Sydney Morning Herald, 1933
The afternoon was passed pleasantly, viewing the Schleissheim Palaces, of which there were actually three. They spent the most time in the eighteenth-century New Palace. A monumental structure, it was by far the largest and grandest of the complex. Its festival rooms were magnificently decorated with carved panelling and stucco work. It was, however, the large allegorical ceiling frescoes that intrigued them most, and much of their time was spent wi
