During a reception for Wagner's daughter-in-law, Hitler was quite taken with Ernst Janning's pretty wife. Janning was then a high rank official in the German Ministry of Justice. When Hitler made advances towards the beautiful wife in a burst of emotion, the husband said: "Chancellor…… I do not object so much that you are so ill-mannered. I do not object to that so much. I object that you are such a bourgeois."

Hitler whitened, stared at Janning, and walked out.