133 “No American”: Ibid., 105.
133 “I regret to say”: Ibid., 107.
133 “such legendary figures” and description of Hanfstaengl: Martha Dodd, 25–26.
133 “You’ve been here”: Reynolds, 109.
134 “we didn’t”: Martha Dodd, 27.
134 “The excitement of”: Ibid., 28.
134 “It will be” and “I could not at first tell”: Reynolds, 118–119.
135 “tragic and tortured”: Martha Dodd, 28.
135 Martha still tried: Ibid., 28–29.
135 Hudson Hawley and “Writing the story”: Reynolds, 119–120.
135 “There isn’t one” and Norman Ebbutt: Ibid., 121.
136 they dispatched officials: Martha Dodd, 32.
136 “Putzi serenaded”: Reynolds, 124.
136 “Never come”: Ibid., 125.
137 “Roosevelt must have”: “Round Robins from Berlin: Louis P. Lochner’s Letters to His Children, 1932–1941,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, Summer 1967.
137 “most agreeable”: Dodd and Dodd, eds., Ambassador Dodd’s Diary, 13.
137 “He showed no”: Ibid., 14.
137 “well-known internationalist” and “So far”: Ibid., 16.
137 “the saddest story”: Ibid., 17.
138 “are so uncontrollable”: Ibid., 44.
138 In a Columbus Day speech: Ibid., 46.
138 “It would be no sin”: Dallek, Democrat and Diplomat, 211.
138 “extraordinary applause”: Dodd and Dodd, eds., Ambassador Dodd’s Diary, 46.
138 “It is evident”: Ibid., 48.
138 “He looks somewhat better” and “The Chancellor assured me”: Ibid., 49.
139 “ranted” and rest of meeting with Hitler: Ibid., 50.
139 “Fundamentally, I believe”: Gordon A. Craig and Felix Gilbert, eds., The Diplomats: 1919–1939, 450.
139 “I walked into the park”: Dodd and Dodd, eds., Ambassador Dodd’s Diary, 53.
140 “just as I would have done” and “It was clear to me”: Ibid., 56.
140 In early December, Sir Eric Phipps: Ibid., 63.
140 On January 1, 1934: Ibid., 67–68.
141 “I was afraid”: Ibid., 68.
141 “Der gute Dodd”: Hanfstaengl, 204.
141 “hopelessly weak”: Dallek, Democrat and Diplomat, 227.
141 “He was a modest”: Hanfstaengl, 203.
142 “Any possible concern” and rest of account and quotes from Eddy visit: Fromm, 123–124.
143 “On the bridge” and rest of Morris account: Wright Morris, Solo: An American Dreamer in Europe: 1933–1934, 161–163.
144 “to create a”: Donald B. Watt, Intelligence Is Not Enough: The Story of My First Forty Years and of the Early Years of the Experiment in International Living, 85.
144 “making friends”: Ibid., 159.
144 “From its war-like”: Ibid., 11.
144 “The suggestion of”: Ibid., 115.
144 “excess of order” and remainder of Watt quotes: Ibid., 115–117.
145 “I journeyed toward” and rest of Schuman quotes: Frederick L. Schuman, The Nazi Dictatorship: A Study in Social Pathology and the Politics of Fascism, viii–x.
146 “pathological hatreds” and “Fascism itself”: Ibid., 505.
146 “Germany wants to become” and other Abel quotes: Abel notebooks, Theodore Abel Papers, box 13, Hoover.
147 “For the Best Personal”: Theodore Abel, Why Hitler Came into Power, 3.
147 “Heroism had become”: Ibid., 27.
148 Eighteen percent: Ibid., 44.
148 “the spirit of Jewish materialism”: Ibid., 45.
148 “From that time”: Ibid., 70.
148 “Schuman concludes”: Ibid., 189.
148 He is male: Ibid., 6.
149 “frankly state their”: Ibid., 8.
149 “In presenting these facts”: Ibid., 9.
149 several American publishers rejected: Theodore Abel Papers, box 14, Hoover.
149 “Adolf Hitler has become”: Manuscript of “Nazi Racialism” dated July 9, 1933, H. R. Knickerbocker Papers, Columbia.
149 “Bloody Jews”: Manuscript of “Jews” dated July 26, 1933, Knickerbocker Papers, Columbia.
150 “the supreme boss”: Manuscript of “Nazi Senate” dated July 9, 1933, Knickerbocker Papers, Columbia.
150 “The latest Soviet method”: Manuscript of “Nazi Soviet” dated July 19, 1934, Knickerbocker Papers, Columbia.
150 “German nudists”: Manuscript of “Nude Culture” dated May 22, 1933, Knickerbocker Papers, Columbia.
150 “Europe is in uniform”: H. R. Knickerbocker, The Boiling Point: Will War Come in Europe?, ix.
151 “the most talked about”: “U najgłośniejszego reportera świata,” Express Poranny, November 12, 1932, Knickerbocker Papers, Columbia.
151 They pressured: Metcalfe, 1933, 126.
151 DANZIG… Ten million lives: Knickerbocker, The Boiling Point, 1.
151 “a tornado of”: Ibid., 4.
151 “The Poles were”: Ibid., 5.
152 “Its lesson”: Ibid., 7.
152 “The odds are”: Ibid., 240.
152 “It is the peace”: Ibid., 267.
153 “It was impossible”: Sir Philip Gibbs, European Journey, 229–230.
153 “He was the mesmerist”: Ibid., 232.
153 “Most people in” and rest of exchange with American woman: Ibid., 235–236.
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155 “a young secretary” and rest of account of Martha Dodd’s June 30 experience: Martha Dodd, Through Embassy Eyes, 141–146.
156 On that morning of June 30 and accounts of Schleicher and Strasser killings: Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 309.
156 Henry Mann: Dodd and Dodd, eds., Ambassador Dodd’s Diary, 131.
157 The primary targets and background on Hitler-Röhm tensions: Ian Kershaw, Hitler, 1889–1936: Hubris, 500–517.
157 “The SA and the SS”: Ibid., 502.
157 “Only fools”: Ibid., 504.
157 The opulent living: Ibid., 503.
157 Breaking into Röhm’s room and rest of account of Bad Wiessee raid and announcement: Ibid., 512–517.
158 “The former Chief of Staff”: Ibid., 516.
158 “in full regalia” and rest of scene with Goering: Sigrid Schultz, ed., Overseas Press Club Cookbook, 149.
158 The body of Gustav von Kahr: Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 310.
159 “There was general regret”: Fromm, 172.
159 “I hope we may” and “black with”: Martha Dodd, Through Embassy Eyes, 155.
159 At the Fourth of July party and “Lebst du noch?”: Ibid., 157–158.
160 “that the Germans”: Ibid., 162.
160 That same week and “Poor Germany”: Dodd and Dodd, eds., Ambassador Dodd’s Diary, 119.
160 In his diary entry of July 8 and “I can think of” and “My task here”: Ibid., 122–123.
161 Back in 1925 and rest of early Shirer bio: http://www.traces.org/williamshirer.html, and from William L. Shirer, Berlin Diary, 3.
161 “the worst job I’ve ever had”: Shirer, Berlin Diary, 10.
161 “The Paris that”: Ibid., 4.
161 “And what a story!” and rest of June 30 diary entry: Ibid., 11.
161 “One had almost”: Ibid., 12.
162 “another young American”: William Shirer, The Traitor, 58–60.
162 “Who can be”: Shirer, Berlin Diary, 13.
162 “unconditional obedience to”: Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 314.
162 “The man is”: Shirer, Berlin Diary, 13.
163 “Nobody believes that”: Fromm, 174.
163 “what would have been”: “Hitler Averted Massacre, Won Army’s Fealty” (name of newspaper missing from clipping), Aug. 4, 1934, Karl H. von Wiegand Collection, box 30, Hoover.
163 “Hitler has attained”: �
�Hitler Challenges Foes to Plebiscite Call; Hopes to Show Masses Back Him,” New York American, Aug. 4, 1934, Wiegand Collection, box 30, Hoover.
163 “Must brush up”: Shirer, Berlin Diary, 13.
163 “Herr So-and-So” and rest of August 25 diary entry: Ibid., 14.
164 “for Röhm” and “in Germany,” and account of Thompson’s trip from Austria to Germany, including stay in Berlin: Dorothy Thompson, “Good-by to Germany,” Harper’s, Dec. 1934.
167 “In view of”: Sanders, Dorothy Thompson, 392.
167 “The general feeling”: Kurth, American Cassandra, 202–203.
167 “a little tearful”: Sanders, 198.
167 “blasphemy” and “My offense”: Kurth, 203.
168 “Germany has gone”: Ibid., 204.
168 “I miss”: Shirer, Berlin Diary, 15.
168 Back in the United States: Richard Lingeman, Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street, 407.
168 “My one ambition”: Sinclair Lewis, It Can’t Happen Here, 68.
169 “There is no excuse”: Lingeman, 409.
169 “slick, debonair”: Shirer, Berlin Diary, 41.
169 “Hitlerland” and “Naziland”: Pierre J. Huss, The Foe We Face, vii and 6.
169 “You had to work”: Ibid., ix.
169 “alight” and rest of Huss account of meeting with Hitler in Obersalzberg: Ibid., 1–6.
171 “Reporting from Germany”: Lochner, Always the Unexpected, 223.
171 In a letter to William Randolph Hearst: Karl H. von Wiegand Papers, box 14, Hoover.
171 On more than one occasion, Sigrid Schultz and rest of her account: David Brown and W. Richard Bruner, eds., How I Got That Story, 75–81.
172 “Like a Roman Emperor” and rest of Nuremberg diary entries: Shirer, Berlin Diary, 16–23.
174 “His followers” and rest of Lochner’s account: “Round Robins from Berlin,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, Summer 1967.
175 There was, I must admit: Richard Helms, A Look over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency, 23.
175 “the city, the surroundings”: Ben Procter, William Randolph Hearst: Final Edition, 1911–1951, 185.
176 “a unanimous expression”: “Hearst Is Quoted as Hailing Nazi Vote,” New York Times, Aug. 23, 1934.
176 “Why am I” and rest of Hearst-Hitler encounter: Procter, 186–187.
177 “bragging about”: Fromm, 184.
177 “Hitler is certainly”: Procter, 187.
177 “Hitler needs a woman” and rest of Martha Dodd’s account of her meeting with Hitler: Martha Dodd, 63–65.
178 “I ostentatiously kept”: Robert H. Lochner, Ein Berliner unter dem Sternenbanner: Erinnerungen eines amerikanischen Zeitzeugen, 12.
179 “Ever afterwards”: From “What to Do if Your Moustache Falls Off,” unpublished manuscript of Angus Thuermer (courtesy of the author).
179 “Once you look” and description of Goebbels reception: Louis Lochner, What About Germany?, 120–121.
179 “extremely pleasant, handsome”: Martha Dodd, 49.
179 “blond Aryan”: Ibid., 50.
179 “most violent” and “the tall boy”: Ibid., 42.
180 “She just liked sleeping”: Katrina Vanden Heuvel, “Grand Illusions,” Vanity Fair, Sept. 1991.
180 “at least twelve” and rest of Martha’s early account of Diels: Martha Dodd, 51–56, 134–139.
180 “I was intrigued”: Ibid., 53.
180 “a pathetic”: Ibid., 134.
180 “Martha, you are” and “I was extremely”: Ibid., 136.
180 He wanted: Dodd and Dodd, eds., 65; and Martha Dodd, 138.
181 “a nervous state”: Martha Dodd, 54.
181 “a frightened rabbit”: Ibid., 135.
181 He was a tall, blond and Vinogradov at Die Taverne: Shareen Blair Brysac, Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra, 155–156.
182 “they had no future” along with Mildred Harnack biographical details: Ibid., 99.
182 “It is said by”: Ibid., 113.
182 “hopefulness and achievement”: Ibid., 119.
182 “the scene of”: Ibid., 99.
182 “amazed at”: Martha Dodd, 99.
182 On May 27, 1934: Brysac, 149.
183 “He was isolated”: Martha Dodd, 84.
183 “He is not happy”: Brysac, 150.
183 “I had had enough” and rest of Martha Dodd’s account and quotes about Russia: Martha Dodd, 169–208.
184 “for the last two weeks” and Wolfe’s arrival in Berlin: A. Scott Berg, Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, 270.
184 “Tom, a huge man” and rest of Dodd’s account of Wolfe: Martha Dodd, 90–95.
184 “I feel myself”: Berg, 271.
184 “Part of Tom’s”: Martha Dodd, 91.
185 “like a butterfly”: Brysac, 179.
185 “disturbing things”: Berg, 270.
185 “If there were”: Aldo P. Magi and Richard Walser, eds., Thomas Wolfe Interviewed, 1929–1938, 67.
185 “a much soberer person”: Martha Dodd, 94.
185 I Have a Thing to Tell You excerpts: C. Hugh Holman, ed., The Short Novels of Thomas Wolfe.
187 “I came away”: Magi and Walser, eds., 88.
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188 “the season of” and other quotes: Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again, 484–486.
188 “Jews, Frenchmen”: David Clay Large, Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936, 43.
188 “plot of Freemasons and Jews”: Ibid., 49.
189 “a disgrace and”: Ibid., 58.
189 “For us National Socialists”: Ibid, 61.
189 Theodor Lewald background: Susan D. Bachrach, The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936, 13.
189 “enormous propaganda” and rest of Lewald pitch: Large, 63.
189 “My personal”: Bachrach, 45–47.
189 “competitors of all”: Large, 71.
190 “no discrimination” and other details of Brundage visit: Ibid., 79.
190 “the token Negro” and rest of Sherrill account: Ibid., 84–85.
190 “flagrant discrimination” and rest of Dodd’s account: Ibid., 97.
191 “this will be” and rest of Messersmith, Geist accounts: Ibid., 94–96.
191 “A consummate”: Ibid., 98.
191 The daily spectacle: Wolfe, 485.
192 “At last he came”: Ibid., 486.
192 “Berlin is now”: Large, 187.
192 “Everything was free”: Rudi Josten interviewed by Peter Gehrig, Dec. 4, 2004, and Mar. 23, 2005, Oral History Collection, Associated Press Corporate Archives.
192 The Nazis even allowed: Large, 186.
192 “A glittering swirl”: Fromm, 226.
192 “I’m afraid the Nazis”: Shirer, Berlin Diary, 65.
192 Carla de Vries: Large, 225.
192 Swimmer Eleanor Holm Jarrett: Ibid., 180.
193 “an orgasmic” and “It was unfair”: Fromm, 225.
193 “a war whoop” and “Hitler twisted”: Martha Dodd, 212.
193 “Negroes should not”: Bachrach, 96.
193 Cheers went up and invitations to black athletes: Ibid., 95.
193 “Jesse Owens ran”: Oliver Lubrich, ed., Travels in the Reich, 1933–1945: Foreign Authors Report from Germany, 138.
194 “Owens was a quiet”: Helms, A Look over My Shoulder, 26.
194 “I have been treated” and rest of DuBois account: Lubrich, ed., 142–143.
195 “Wearing gray flannel”: Fromm, 225–226.
195 “When Huber presented” and rest of Morris story: Leni Riefenstahl, Leni Riefen-stahl: A Memoir, 196–198.
196 “his sad fate”: Ibid., 200.
196 At an official function and Hitler-Smith exchange: Robert Hessen, ed., Berlin Alert, 47.
196 “Berlin was so familiar” and other Katharine Smith quotes throughout: Katharine Alling Hollister Smith, “My Life: Berlin August 1935–A
pril 1939,” Truman Smith Papers, boxes 4 and 16, Hoover.
197 “Your past relationship”: Hessen, ed., 27.
199 Kätchen, who was: Kätchen Coley interviewed by author (2010).
199 “of air corps”: Hessen, ed., 78.
199 “their wits alone”: Ibid., 83.
199 “How fast can you”: Katharine Smith’s unpublished memoir.
200 Two months later and origins of proposal to Lindbergh: Hessen, ed., 87–88.
200 “I need hardly tell you”: Ibid., 89.
200 “extremely interested”: Ibid., 91.
201 “Colonel Smith is” and other diary quotes: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, The Flower and the Nettle: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1936–1939, 72–76.
202 “We, who are in aviation”: Hessen, ed., 95.
202 “But no more speeches”: Katharine Smith’s unpublished memoir.
202 “Goering showed many facets”: Hessen, ed., 101.
202 “blazoned in”: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 85.
203 “I find that to laugh” and description of lion encounter: Katharine Smith’s unpublished manuscript, except where Anne is quoted.
203 “I see and say nothing”: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 86.
203 When Goering’s lion: Kätchen Coley interviewed by author (2010).
204 “Smith, there are”: Hessen, ed., 102.
204 At Rostock: Ibid., 96–97.
204 “we have nothing” and “a spirit”: A. Scott Berg, Lindbergh, 357.
204 “obtain technical parity”: Truman Smith, “An American Estimate of the German Air Force” (Nov. 1, 1937), Airpower Historian, April 1963, in Truman Smith Papers, box 9, Hoover.
205 “German aviation” and “the best promotion”: Fromm, 224.
205 “How well and how”: Albert C. Wedemeyer Papers, box 61, folder 19, Hoover.
205 “I have had” and rest of August 5 letter: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 87.
206 “While I still have”: Berg, 361.
206 “he is undoubtedly”: Ibid.
206 The event that would cement and Truman Smith’s description, along with Wilson’s letter to Lindbergh: Hessen, ed., 132–133.
207 “a victory by”: Berg, 382.
207 “Hitler’s realistic” and misjudgments about military disaffection: Truman Smith, “Party and Army: Germany–November 1937,” Truman Smith Papers, box 2, Hoover.
207 “I was astonished”: Original manuscript of Smith’s The Facts of Life, 104, Truman Smith Papers, box 2, Hoover.
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