Berlin

"get away with anything": Quoted in Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost (Boston, 1988), 83.

"careful solicitude"; "carved up Africa": Pakenham, Scramble, 254.

"So much for Philosophy": Quoted in McFeely, Grant, 469.

"being shot at": Quoted in Pflanze, Bismarck, II, 392.

"Precisely so": Quoted in McFeely, Grant, 469.

"must be struck": Bebel quoted in Vizetelly, Berlin, II, 437.

"aims of Social Democracy"; "get anything done"; "by liberalism": Quoted in Pflanze, Bismarck, II, 395, 402.

"between the social classes"; "endangered districts": Quoted in ibid., 413–414.

"an industrial exhibition": Brandes, Berlin als Reichshauptstadt, 168–169.

"of the times"; "sent you here"; "yellow coat"; "for the future": Quoted in Glatzer, Berlin wird Kaiserstadt, 254–263.

"rather go under"; "smallness"; with his whip; "off a revolution": Ibid., 264–265, 267, 269.

"that rules Berlin"; "press of Berlin": Moritz Busch, Bismarck: Some Secret Pages of His History (London, 1898), 3 vols., II, 470–472.

Chapter 2

"possible in Berlin": Quoted in Rolf Stremmel, Modell und Moloch. Berlin in der Wahrnehmung deutscher Politiker vom Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg (Bonn, 1992), 54.

"Silicon Valley of its day": Sir Peter Hall, Cities in Civilization (New York, 1998), 377.

"consciousness regarding itself: Wolf Jobst Siedler, "Die traditionelle Traditionslosigkeit. Notizen zur Baugeschichte Berlin’s" in Manfred Schlenke, ed., Preussen, Versuch einer Bilanz: Ausstellung Katalog (Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1981), 311.

"venerable beside it": Mark Twain, "The German Chicago," in Neider, ed., Complete Essays, 88.

"rapidity of its growth": Charles Huard, Berlin comme je l’ai vu (Paris, 1907), 33.

"city of Parvenus": Walther Rathenau, "Die schönste Stadt der Welt," in Jürgen Schutte and Peter Sprengel, eds. Die Berliner Moderne 1885–1914 (Stuttgart, 1987), 100–101.

"youngest European great city": Arthur Eloesser, Die Strassen meiner Jugend (Berlin, 1987), 31.

eastern Europeans: Gerhard Brunn, "Metropolis Berlin," in G. Brunn and Jürgen Reulecke, Metropolis Berlin. Berlin als deutsche Hauptstadt im Vergleich europäischer Hauptstädte 1871–1939 (Bonn, 1992), 21.

"German non-culture": Karl Scheffler, Berlin—Ein Stadtschicksal (Berlin, 1910), 121.

"surrogates and imitations"; "a shoreless future": Eloesser, Strasse, 77–80.

"lack of historical interest": Karl Baedeker, Berlin and Its Environs: Handbook for Travellers (Leipzig, 1903), 51.

collapse of moral integrity: Roper, German Encounters, 127–145. On attitudes toward Berlin in German literature at the turn of the century, see also Viktor Zmegac, "Für und gegen Berlin in der literarischen Kultur der Jahrhundertwende," in Klaus Siebenhaar, ed., Das poetische Berlin. Metropolenkultur zwischen Gründerzeit und Nationalsozialismus (Wiesbaden, 1992), 69–84.

"reign among us": Quoted in Roper, German Encounters, 200.

"and steam boilers"; "of his youth": Max Kretzer, Meister Timpe (Stuttgart, 1976), 28, 64.

capital’s nightlife: John H. Zammito, "Der Streit um die Berliner Kultur 1871 bis 1930," in Jahrbuch für die Geschichte Mittel- und Ostdeutschland. Band 35 (Berlin, 1986), 238.

"spiritual emptiness": Quoted in Andrew Lees, "Critics of Urban Society in Germany, 1854–1914," Journal of the History of Ideas 40:1 (Jan.-March 1979), 71.

"ought to be now": Quoted in Pakula, Uncommon Woman, 476.

"chivalry in Berlin": Quoted in ibid., 471.

"young men in it": Quoted in John C. G. Röhl and Nicolaus Sombart, eds., Kaiser Wilhelm II. New Interpretations (Cambridge and New York, 1982), 47.

"offer you a fountain": Michael Erbe, "Berlin im Kaiserreich," in Wolfgang Ribbe, ed., Geschichte Berlin’s. Zweiter Band. Von der Märzrevolution bis zur Gegenwart (Munich, 1987), 761.

"blood of my subjects": Quoted in Otto Pflanze, Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Volume III. The Period of Fortification (Princeton, 1990), 358.

"with incomparable success": Ibid., 373.

"constantly being added": Vierhaus, ed., Spitzemberg Tagebuch, 275–276.