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"too high a price": Quoted in Hellmut von Gerlach, ed., Die grosse Zeit der Lüge: Der erste Weltkrieg und die deutsche Mentalität (1871–1921) (Bremen, 1994), 2. Belinda Davis’s new study, Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin (Chapel Hill, 2000) appeared too recently to be consulted for this book.

first two weeks of the war: Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert, Capital Cities at War. Paris, London, Berlin, 1914–1918 (Cambridge, 1997), 139.

other parts of the Reich: Ibid., 58–66; Ernst Kaeber, Berlin im Weltkriege. Fünf Jafire städtischer Kriegsarbeit (Berlin, 1921), 1–20.

"concentrated in Berlin?": Quoted in Stremmel, Modell, 98.

Rathenau: On Rathenau’s contribution, see Wolfgang Kruse, "Kriegswirtschaft und Gesellschaft-vision. Walther Rathenau und die Organisierung des Kapitalismus," in Hans Wilderotter, ed., Die Extreme berühren sich. Walther Rathenau 1867–1922 (Berlin, 1993), 151–168; Gerald D. Feldman, Army, Industry, and Labor in Germany (Princeton, 1966).

female work-force: Winter and Robert, Capital Cities, 188.

motormen: Gerard, My Four Years, 407; see also Kaeber, Berlin im Weltkriege, 2.

"socialist principles": Quoted in Feldman, Army, 104.

"orgy of interest politics": Ibid., 150.

"during the entire war": Adlon, Hotel Adlon, 81.

"bread was unpalatable": Gilbert, European Past, 32.

profit for themselves: "Marmelade statt Butter?" Berlin Lokal-Anzeiger, Oct. 19, 1919.

"their hollow breasts": Quoted in Dieter Glatzer and Ruth Glatzer, eds., Berliner Leben 1914–1918. Eine historische Reportage aus Erinnerungen und Berichten (Berlin, 1983), 265.

"next meal will be": Evelyn Blucher von Wahlstatt, An English Wife in Berlin (New York, 1920), 158.

"picking them clean": Quoted in Stremmel, Modell, 95.

"eating shit for dessert": Quoted in Robert Scholz, "Ein unruhiges Jahrzehnt: Lebensmittelunruhen, Massenstreiks und Arbeitslosen-Krawalle in Berlin 1914–1923," in Manfred Gallus, ed., Pöbelexzesse und Volkstumulte in Berlin. Zur Sozialgeschichte der Strasse (1830–1980) (Berlin, 1984), 83.

"discourse in Berlin": Ibid., 85.

"these difficult times": Ibid., 87.

"Truly a Weltstadt": Quoted in Stremmel, Modell, 235. See also A. Joachimsthaler, Korrektur einer Biographie. Adolf Hitler 1908–1920 (Munich, 1989), 170–171.

"mistakes and dark sides": Stremmel, Modell, 235.

"fields of grain": Harnack quoted in Gerard, My Four Years, 147–148.

"Manifesto of the Ninety-three": See Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg and Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg, Der Aufruf ‘An der Kulturwelt!’ (Stuttgart, 1996), 72–73.

"Manhattan Project": Fritz Stern, Dreams and Delusions (New York, 1987), 65.

"then, however, regularly": Quoted in ibid., 63.

"live in Berlin": Quoted in Ronald W. Clark, Einstein. The Life and Times (New York, 1971), 168.

"speak out for peace"; "cessation of hostilities": Ibid., 181; also Stern, Einstein’s German World, 115–118.

"one excitement to another": Berlin Börsen-Courier, Dec. 9, 1915. Quoted in Jelavich, Berlin Cabaret, 119.

"darling, darling army": Quoted in Helga Bemmann, Claire Waldoff (Frankfurt am Main, 1994), 97.

"one enemy alone": Quoted in Jelavich, Berlin Cabaret, 119.

"lead in fashion questions": Quoted in Verhey, "Spirit of 1914," 120.

"of their fellow citizens": Jelavich, Berlin Cabaret, 121.

"Frau General": Quoted in Bemmann, Claire Waldoff, 100–101.

"whores and champagne"; "unpatriotic bastards"; in the trenches: Quoted in Jelavich, Berlin Cabaret, 124.

"existence with impunity": Quoted in Paret, Berlin Secession, 235.

"Roman Eagle"; Iron Cross: Ibid., 238, 240–243.

"banality in life": Robert Hughes, Nothing If Not Critical (New York, 1990), 167.

"Courbet of the cannibals": Ibid., 168.

"sign of their fate": Quoted in Clark V. Poling, "The City and Modernity: Art in Berlin in the First World War and Its Aftermath," in Morris and Woods, eds. Art in Berlin 1815–1989, 84.

"arrived there": George Grosz, An Autobiography (New York, 1983), 94.