Edited sentence: By 1938, she writes, "Hitler was advised that Fleischhauer was placing Germany in embarrassing positions abroad, as he was the kind of ‘anti-Semite who pretends to see a threatening Jew behind every street corner of the world and who tries to deal with the matter in a psychosis of fear and secretiveness’.For many years Fleischhauer was secretly funded by the Nazi Party, as were a number of similar organizations.However, Fleischhauer's personal role at Welt-Dienst declined as Germany neared the start of World War II.Researcher Carmen Callil, whose excellent work on the topic is listed in the references section below, reports that Fleischhauer's political radicalism was beginning to hurt the Third Reich's international image