 His lack of influence affected him deeply, even causing him to contemplate suicide.During an effort led, between 1879 and 1881, by the "völkisch" historian Heinrich von Treitschke and the court chaplain, Adolf Stoecker, to dis-emancipate German Jews, the Crown Prince and Crown Princess were in opposition, Victoria writing that she saw "Treitschke and his supporters as lunatics of the most dangerous sort", and opining that Pastor Stoecker properly belonged in an insane asylum.She went on to write that she felt ashamed of her adopted country because people like Treitschke and Stoecker "behave so "hatefully" towards people of a different faith and another race who become an integral part (and by no means the worst) of our nation!