Even I, at the age of 12 in the 1930s, had firsthand experience of the anti-Semitic frenzy that was gripping the members of the National Socialist party in Germany in those days. I had just moved from a private school in England to attend the boarding school at Salem in the south of Germany belonging to one of my brothers-in-law. The founder of the school, Kurt Hann, had already been driven out of Germany by Nazi persecution, and this was well known throughout the school. It was the custom of the school to appoint a senior boy to look after new arrivals. I was unaware of it at the time, but it so happened that our 'helper', as he was called, was of Jewish origin. One night he was overpowered in his bed and had all his hair cut off. You can imagine what effect that had on us junior boys. Nothing could have given us a clearer indication of the meaning of persecution. It so happened that I had played cricket for my school in England and I still had my cricket cap with me. I offered it to our helper and I was pleased to see that he wore it. It is a small and insignificant incident, but it taught me a very important lesson about man's capacity for inhumanity, and I have never forgotten it. We may dislike individual people, we may disagree with their politics and opinions, but we should never allow us to condemn their whole community simply because of the race or religion of its members."