
Frege: From Breakthrough to Despair
In his diary entry for April 22, 1924, Frege reminisces about a time
when the Jews of his home town were treated in what he thought was an
appropriate manner and also manages to disclose his views on the French
and their baleful influence:
There was a law at that time that Jews were permitted to stay
overnight in Wismar only in the time of certain annual fairs, . . .
I suppose this decree was old. The old Wismarkers must have had
experiences with the Jews that had led them to this legislation.
It must have been the Jewish way of doing business together
with the Jewish national characteristics that is tied together