Note 39
From Summary by Joachim C. Fest— See further Notes

Bullock, Hitler. Goebbels remarked with a similar illustration:

'Just the same in Germany; a few flames burn brightly, the others only reflect their light' (My Part in Germany's Fight, entry for 4th January 1932).

Almost the same remark emerges apparently exactly a year later, on 3rd January 1933, in this same diary.