Berlin

"plunge into this?": Joseph Goebbels, Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels. Sämtliche Fragmente, ed. Elke Fröhlich, 4 vols. (Munich, 1987), I, 205.

"as a fish needs water": Quoted in Ralf Georg Reuth, Goebbels (New York, 1993), 81.

"off the streets": Quoted in Dieter Schütte, Charlottenburg (Berlin, 1988), 87.

"soil that reckoning": Quoted in Reuth, Goebbels, 91.

"only the Israelites": Quoted in Kaes, Jay, and Dimendberg, eds., Weimar Sourcebook, 500.

"or village untouched": Joseph Goebbels, Kampf um Berlin (Munich, 1934), 11. On the Nazi Party in Berlin at the time of Goebbels’s arrival, see Martin Broszat, "Die Anfänge der Berliner NSDAP 1926/27," Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 8. Jg. (1960), 85–117.

"immense bat-shadow of home": Quoted in Richard Davenport-Hines, Auden (New York, 1995), 88.

"grubby old men"; "uncartesian world of Berlin": Ibid., 87.

"under police control": Peppiatt, Bacon, 29.

Auden and Isherwood: For a study of these English writers’ encounter with Berlin, see Norman Page, Auden and Isherwood. The Berlin Years (New York, 1998).

"as I was doing": John Lehmann, In the Purely Pagan Sense (London, 1985), 44.

"to bed together": Davenport-Hines, Auden, 97.

"mass of bruises": Quoted in Humphrey Carpenter, W. H. Auden. A Biography (London, 1993), 90.

"will be good"; "were shaking": Ibid., 86.

"Berlin meant boys": Christopher Isherwood, Christopher and His Kind (New York, 1976), 2.

"working-class foreigner"; "masquerade of perversions"; "the entire nation": Ibid., 3, 29, 4.

"suitable viewer appeared"; "distasteful customs"; "potent ingredients": Ibid., 16, 29, 43.

"a bankrupt middle class": Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin (Harmondsworth, England, 1945), 7.

"luggage of her lodgers": Ibid., 8.

"synonym for stupidity": Quoted in Paul Bowles, Without Stopping. An Autobiography (New York, 1972), 109–111; Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno, An Invisible Spectator (New York, 1989), 100–102.

Hamilton: On Gerald Hamilton, see Isherwood, Christopher and His Kind, 72–78; also Gerald Hamilton, Mr. Norris and I (London, 1956).

"Deutschland Erwache!": Stephen Spender, World Within World (London, 1951), 130.

"friction, and sparks": Quoted in Willet, Art and Politics, 177.

Sklarek scandal: Köhler, "Berlin in der Weimarer Republik," 868–875.

"become a circus director": Quoted in Stremmel, Modell, 146.

"boldest dreams": Quoted in Reuth, Goebbels, 109.

"establish a dictatorship": Kessler, In the Twenties, 367–368.

liability for the nation: British Embassy Report, Jan. 27, 1930, Public Record Office, FO 371, 14357/934.

"also need a face?": Quoted in Steven Bach, Marlene Dietrich. Life and Legend (New York, 1992), 107–108.

"your pubic hair": Ibid., 113.

"corrupting kitsch": Ibid., 141.

"spirit never dead": Quoted in Reuth, Goebbels, 113.

Kreuzberg and Köpenick: Christian Engeli and Wolfgang Ribbe, "Berlin in der NS-Zeit," in Ribbe, ed., Geschichte Berlin’s, II, 990; see also Reuth, Goebbels, 120.

"lounging about and demonstrating": Kessler, In the Twenties, 399–400.

"prudent thing to do": Bella Fromm, Blood and Banquets (New York, 1990), 27.

"on their seats, shrieking": Leni Riefenstahl, A Memoir (New York, 1995), 62.

Berlin Schutzpolizei: See Hsi-huey Liang, The Berlin Police Force in the Weimar Republic (Berkeley, 1970), 91. See also Modris Eksteins, "War, Memory, and Politics: The Fate of the Film All Quiet on the Western Front," Central European History, Vol. 13 (1980), 60–80.

"anything like it": Quoted in Reuth, Goebbels, 125.

"not a cent more": Zuckmayer, Als wär’s ein Stück von mir, 379–380.

"serious music is on the way": Quoted in Heyworth, Klemperer, I, 383.

"future time": Quoted in Alan Balfour, Berlin. The Politics of Order 1737–1989 (New York, 1990), 65.

fate of Bauhaus: Willet, Art and Politics, 208; Elaine S. Hochman, Architects of Fortune. Mies van der Rohe and the Third Reich (New York, 1990), 73–105.

"espionage and treason": Quoted in Deak, Weimar Germany’s Left-Wing Intellectuals, 190–192.

"cannot support that": Quoted in Heyworth, Klemperer, I, 378.

stodgy and backward looking: David Clay Large, Where Ghosts Walked: Munich’s Road to the Third Reich (New York, 1998), 202–206.