the Movement were “reac¬ tionary”.
Once when I was walking through the inner city I suddenly came across a being in a long caftan with black side-locks. My first thought was : Is that a Jew ? In Linz they did not look like that. I watched the man stealthily and cautiously, but the longer I stared at that strange countenance and studied it feature MY STRUGGLE 3i by feature, the more the question in a different form turned in my brain : Is that a German ?
As always on such occasions, I proceeded to try and remove my doubts by means of books. For the first time in my life I bought some anti-semitic pamphlets for a few heller. Unfortunately these assumed that the reader had at least some knowledge or understanding of the Jewish question. Finally, the tone of most of them was such that I again fell into doubt, because the assertions in them were supported by such flimsy and unscientific arguments.