It was common for American expatriates to visit the U.S. consulate in Berlin, but not in the condition exhibited by the man who arrived there on Thursday, June 29, 1933. He was Joseph Schachno, thirty-one years old, a physician from New York who until recently had been practicing medicine in a suburb of Berlin. Now he stood naked in one of the curtained examination rooms on the first floor of the consulate where on more routine days a public health surgeon would examine visa applicants seeking to immigrate to the United States. The skin had been flayed from much of his body.
- From In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
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