ABSTRACT
Other foreign visitors agreed. The American Ray Stannard Baker, visiting Germany the next year, found the constant police presence on the streets suffocating.3 His compatriot the social investigator Raymond B.Fosdick, writing in 1914, was struck by ‘the army of Verboten signs’ and the fact that ‘on every side and at every turn, the German citizen is confronted by newly adopted police regulations’.4
