A visiting Jewish professor from Berlin was describing conditions under Nazi rule. The president of an American university interrupted:

“What has really happened to Germany? Formerly American visitor would say that it is God’s country.”

“I’ll tell you just what has happened,” replied the professor. “God is still liberal with us, and in our day he gave the German people three institutions: honesty, intelligence, and Nazism. However, God imposed the condition that a German may have only two of the three institutions. For this reason, if a German is honest and a Nazi, he cannot be intelligent; if he is intelligent and a Nazi, he cannot be honest, and if he is honest and intelligent, he cannot be a Nazi.”

      一个来自柏林的犹大访问学者向大家描述纳粹统治时期的情景.一个美国大学的校长打断了他的话: "德国到底发生了什么? 之前的美国访问者都说那是个上帝所属的国家."

     "我来告诉你发生了什么," 学者回答说, "上帝对我们还是公义的,在那些日子,他给了德国人民三种特性:忠诚,智慧,和纳粹主义. 但是,上帝规定每个德国人只能拥有三个特性里的二个. 因为这个原因, 如果一个德国人是忠诚而又是一个纳粹分子, 那他不可能智慧. 如果他有智慧, 又是一个纳粹分子, 那他不可能忠诚;  如果他又忠诚, 又智慧, 他就不可能是个纳粹分子!"