It began in Zagreb in 1937, when a group of student friends suggested that I write for the Yugoslav press a series of articles on the position of Moslem women. The students were bitter about the “enslavement” of their sisters who had been married in traditional manner. I was not very enthusiastic about attacking the women’s veil or the lattice window, but I was willing to study and report on Bosnian family life. It was the end of the spring-summer term, and we drew up a questionnaire which the students took home with them during their summer vacation. It was to be a small research effort into the domestic way of life of the Bosnian Moslem. [...]
Europide, europider Rassenkreis (TAFELN Menschenrassen), die Gesamtheit der in Europa einheimischen --> Menschenrassen, gekennzeichnet durch helle Haut, z.T. auch helle Augen und Haare, weiches, schlichtes bis lockiges Haar, relativ starke Körperbehaarung usw., sowie durch jene geistig-seel. Anlagen, aus denen u.a. die abendländ. Kultur erwachsen ist. [...]
Working Men! To you I dedicate a work, in which I have tried to lay before my German Countrymen a faithful picture of your condition, of your sufferings and struggles, of your hopes and prospects. I have lived long enough amidst you to know something about your circumstances; I have devoted to their knowledge my most serious attention, I have studied the various official and non-official documents as far as I was able to get hold of them - I have not been satisfied with this, I wanted more than a mere abstract knowledge of my subject, I wanted to see you in your own homes, to observe you in your every-day life, to chat with you on your condition and grievances, to witness your struggles against the social and political power of your oppressors.[...]