After the First World War, tourists were seen as competitors for scarce food. The Bavarian government under Gustav von Kahr harassed travelers with rules, regulations and threats of punishment. The German journalist and writer Kurt Tucholsky, who was born in 1890 and committed suicide in exile in 1935, called on people in 1921 not to travel to Bavaria any more. "Travellers, avoid Bavaria!" "Anyone who doesn't have a national beer belly of Bavarian origin is a foreigner." [...] "Why are you going there? To be harassed? [...] Don't go to Bavaria any more if you're being harassed! Boycott it. And if you're going on a long trip, go to Italy." Adolf Hitler also got involved in the discussion about tourism in a speech in April 1922. He claimed that it was dominated by Jewish tourists. In a perfidious way, the supposedly rich Jews are played off against the supposedly poor non-Jewish hikers. "The Jew has not become poorer. He is gradually bloating himself, and if you don't believe that, please take a look at our health resorts, where you will find two categories of people today. The German who goes there to get some fresh air and relax for the first time in a long time, and the Jew who goes there to lose his fat. [...] And if you go out into our mountains, who do you find there in brand new, yellow, magnificent boots with beautiful backpacks, in which there is really usually nothing useful? And for what? They go up to the hotel anyway, usually to where the train goes, and where the train stops, that's where they stop too. There within a radius of a kilometer like blowflies around a carcass. [...] These are truly not our 'working' classes, neither the intellectual nor the physical. You will usually find them scrambling around sideways in tattered suits. For the simple reason that they are embarrassed to even enter this perfume-filled atmosphere in their 1913 or 1914 clothes. [...] "It would be pointless to refute this here; pointless to prove that even fat Aryans in new yellow boots do not like to leave the vicinity of the mountain railway and that young Jewish mountaineers have set climbing records in the Alps...". This is what the journalist and Hitler opponent Konrad Heiden, who was born in Munich in 1901 and died in New York in 1966, wrote about the Hitler speech, which he unwillingly recognizes as a masterpiece of populist rhetoric: "It would be pointless to refute this here - because the refutation will be heard, perhaps believed and certainly forgotten again. But the image drawn by Hitler with his glaring master strokes - the yellow boots, the mountain station, the Jews with their mock rucksacks slung over their shoulders and the timid Aryan climbers standing off to the side in their tattered clothing - is indelible. Anyone who has heard it once will never forget it."