On the evening of February 5, 1930, the art and theater critic Paul Fechter took the podium(讲台) before the League of Nationalist German Jews, in Berlin, to discuss purported(据称的) Jewish control of the press and the arts in the country. “When Dr. Max Naumann invited me to give a lecture in your circle, I rather impulsively said yes,” Fechter began. “When he then told me the topic he wanted me to address, my immediate reaction was: Good grief! One could not have found a better topic for making oneself thoroughly unpopular and for antagonizing everyone in the room.”
1930年2月5日晚，艺术与戏剧评论家保罗·费希特在柏林登上讲台，面对“民族主义德国犹太人联盟”发表演讲，讨论所谓犹太人对德国新闻界和艺术界的控制。费希特开场说道：“当马克斯·瑙曼博士邀请我到你们圈子里做讲座时，我相当冲动地答应了。然后他告诉我他希望我讲的主题，我的第一反应是：天哪！再也找不到比这更好的话题，能让自己彻底不受欢迎，并激怒在座的每一个人了。”
For too long, Fechter said, people had been too “shy, fearful, cautious(谨慎的)” to speak openly about the Jews. Fechter, an editor at the conservative newspaper Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, was pulling no punches. The popular Jewish humorist(幽默作家) Kurt Tucholsky, Fechter said, had insulted the German people with his recent book, Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, an acid satire about the army, the police, the civil service, the national anthem, even Sekt, a popular sparkling wine(起泡酒).
费希特说，长期以来，人们过于“害羞、恐惧、谨慎”，不敢公开谈论犹太人。费希特是保守派报纸《德意志 Allgemeine Zeitung》的编辑，他毫不留情。费希特说，受欢迎的犹太幽默作家库尔特·图霍尔斯基最近的书《德国，德国高于一切》侮辱了德国人民，这本书是对军队、警察、公务员、国歌甚至广受欢迎的起泡酒 Sekt 的尖刻讽刺。
“A large portion of the literary and art worlds are in Jewish hands(在犹太人手中),” Fechter continued. “The theaters, the major publishing houses, the major art dealers are all at least partially under Jewish control.” Jewish art dealers, Fechter said, filled their galleries with works by “Manet and Monet and Renoir and Gauguin and Picasso and Cezanne”—French Impressionists and Modernists(法国印象派和现代主义画家), in other words, rather than traditional German painters. The Antigermanismus among Jews, Fechter declared, was “far more robust(强烈的)” than the Antisemitismus among right-wing German nationalists.
“文学界和艺术界的很大一部分掌握在犹太人手中，”费希特继续说道。“剧院、主要出版社、主要艺术经销商至少部分处于犹太人控制之下。”费希特说，犹太艺术经销商在画廊里摆满了“马奈、莫奈、雷诺阿、高更、毕加索和塞尚”的作品——换句话说，是法国印象派和现代主义画家，而不是传统德国画家。费希特宣称，犹太人中的“反德主义”比右翼德国民族主义者中的“反犹主义”要“强烈得多”。