"National-Socialism came to power in Germany in the same year as Roosevelt was elected President … Roosevelt comes from a rich family and belongs to the class whose path is smoothed in the Democracies. I am only the child of a small, poor family and had to fight my way by work and industry. When the Great War came, Roosevelt occupied a position where he got to know only its pleasant consequences, enjoyed by those who do business while others bleed … I shared the fate of millions, and Franklin Roosevelt only the fate of the so-called Upper Ten Thousand … he made profits out of the inflation, out of the misery of others, while I, together with many hundreds of thousands more, lay in hospital."