¹ “ceasing” is crossed out.

² This sentence added in pencil.

³ The Treaty of Hubertusburg at the end of the Seven Years War in 1763 established Prussia's place as a great European power. I owe this reference to Meredith Edwards.

⁴ The word “not” inserted twice.

⁵ The word “policy” crossed out.

⁶ The Red Army crossed the Dnieper in early October 1943 and took Kiev November 6.

⁷ This sentence inserted at the bottom of the page.

⁸ Anti-Nazi German exiles had formed Free German Committees first in Moscow and later in London.

⁹ The phrase “and all the responsibility” is crossed out.

¹⁰ The words “to sit” are written twice but the first time crossed out.

¹¹ The manuscript has “their.”

¹² “Germany” changed in the manuscript to “Germans.”

¹³ The word “for” is crossed out after “disregard.”

¹⁴ The phrase “on restoration,” crossed out here.

¹⁵ Strauss himself at about this time was applying for US citizenship, which he received in 1944. He received an acknowledgment of his preliminary petition for naturalization dated December 7, 1943, and filed his naturalization petition February 1, 1944. Leo Strauss papers Box 28 folder 1.

¹⁶ The word “the” inserted above the line.

¹⁷ This sentence was inserted at the bottom of the page.

¹⁸ The word “the” is crossed out.

¹⁹ Consider Father Charles Coughlin.

²⁰ A mountain in Saxony-Anhalt where, according to legend, Emperor Frederick Barbarossa sleeps bewitched in a cave, waiting for the time when he will restore German greatness.

²¹ Adolf Stöcker (1835–1909), Lutheran clergyman, Reichstag member, and founder of the Christian Social Party, the Lutheran Social Congress, and the United Lutheran Workers League, who helped push the Conservative Party to adopt anti-Semitism. See Pulzer, Peter, The Rise of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria (Harvard University Press: Cambridge, 1964, 1988), pp. 85–97, 111–119Google Scholar.

²² Three letters at the start of this word are darkened or crossed out as if LS had started to write something else, perhaps “observation.”

²³ The Barmen Synod organized by Karl Barth, Martin Niemöller, and others in May 1934 issued the Barmen Declaration, the basis of the Confessing Church that opposed National Socialism and the established Lutheran church.

²⁴ Old Testament.

²⁵ The word “pogrom” crossed out and “persecution” inserted.

²⁶ The word “the” inserted.

²⁷ A clause is crossed out here: “while non Jewish feelings will be rampant all over the world.”