tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162552.post-1135841199966738442005-12-28T21:18:00.000-10:002005-12-28T21:26:39.966-10:002005-12-28T21:26:39.966-10:00Note by editor Louis P. Lochner to <span style="font-style: italic;">The Goebbels Diaries:</span><br /><br /><blockquote>Xaver Schwartz was one of the oldest of the Nazis, and held the post of treasurer of the Party throughout. He was fond of distributing signed photographs of himself to deserving comrades and visitors.<br /><br />No sooner had the Nazis come into their own than he "acquired" an estate on one of the enchanting lakes of Upper Bavaria and personally supervised the construction of a sumptuous residence which, it was generally rumored, was to cost 50,000 marks.<br /><br />He proved such a slave driver, however, that the workers became incensed and one day put up a sign: "Xaver Schwarz! Where did you get the 50,000 marks?"<br /><br />When Schwarz arrived on the premises he saw the sign and fell into a rage. He telephoned the Gestapo and had Himmler's minions put every worker "through the wringer." But nobody revealed who had painted and put up the sign.<br /><br />Schwarz then decided to play upon human avarice. He put up a sign of his own: "Five thousand marks' reward to anyone who will reveal the perpetrators of the sign."<br /><br />The response came promptly the next morning in the form of a new sign: "Xaver Schwarz! Where did you get the 55,000 marks?"</blockquote>frankysbridenoreply@blogger.com