Note 42
From Professor NSDAP by Joachim C. Fest — See further Notes

42 Quoted by Rolf Michaelist, 'Das wandelbare politische Gesicht eines Dichters', Der Tagesspiegel, 15th November 1962. See also the recollections of the writer Ferenc Kormendy on his personal encounter with Gerhart Hauptmann in the summer of 1938, which impressively testify to this ambivalence.