Munich, July 1936
"From Munich - now appearing almost foreign - from Prussian-occupied Munich, comes an amusing tale. It concerns Herr Esser, the Minister of Transport, who, in view of his known activities, should really be called the Minister of Sexual Transports. This Esser had an affair with the daughter of the owner of a tavern, and was so badly beaten by the father that he could neither go out nor, compromised as he was, remain in Munich. In accordance with the style of this regime, which has simply discarded decency as so much excess baggage, he was promoted shortly thereafter to a much higher post in Berlin. From there, he has just announced that travelling abroad by an individual has now become a thing of the past, and that henceforth a German can leave his country only as part of a herd, the "Strength Through Joy" organisation. We have, therefore, every prospect of losing whatever remains of our freedom of movement, and of thus becoming completely the prisoners of this horde of vicious apes who three years ago seized power over us."
- Friedrich Reck, Diary of a Man in Despair (1947; English translation 1970, 2000, 2013) p. 8. Reck died at Dachau in 1945.
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