Berlin

"pigsty in Munich"; "I’ll back you": Reuth, Goebbels, 127, 130.

"élan of the SA"; who looked Jewish: Ibid., 130, 137.

"he’s a hat": Quoted in Craig, Germany, 561.

"orders of their superior": Fromm, Blood and Banquets, 55.

"chivalry": Henry Ashby Turner, Jr., Hitler’s Thirty Days to Power (Reading, Mass., 1996), 12; Ian Kershaw, Hitler, 1889–1936: Hubris (New York, 1999), 373–374.

"hammer-and-sickle": Grosz, Autobiography, 245.

"stay in Paris"; "must appease them": Arthur Koestler, Arrow in the Blue (New York, 1952), 245.

"kindly nod": Ibid., 253–254.

"tacked on to it"; "never see it again": Quoted in Clark, Einstein, 447, 452.

"shames one’s correctitude": Quoted in Kaes, Jay, and Dimendberg, eds., Weimar Sourcebook, 425–426.

323,000 in September: Engeli and Ribbe, "Berlin in der NS-Zeit," 905.

"the Underground Railway": Quoted in Friedrich, Before the Deluge, 354.

"still-dripping geraniums"; "liberated life": Daniel Guéran, The Brown Plague. Travels in Late Weimar and Early Nazi Germany (Durham, N.C., 1994), 68.

"half clown": Ibid., 63.

"rejection of bourgeois methods"; "revolutionary struggle"; "incredible tension": Quoted in Reuth, Goebbels, 155–156.

traditional beggars: Vossische Zeitung, Oct. 10, 1932.

regain power himself; "hold [the Nazis] off": Fromm, Blood and Banquets, 62–63, 68.

"Later? Vanished!": Quoted in Turner, Hitler’s Thirty Days, 1–2.

Chapter 6

"happy and clean city": Quoted in Berlin Wirbt!, 18.

"spiritually in flight": Hermann Ullmann, Fluent aus Berlin? (Jena, 1932), 7.

"on the Jew Republic"; "won a battle": Quoted in Turner, Hitler’s Thirty Days, 110.

"never defeat us": Völkischer Beobachter, Jan. 22–23, 1933.

"over the box": Zuckmayer, Als wär’s ein Stück von mir, 384–385.

"German loyalty": André François-Poncet, The Fateful Years (London, 1949), 43.

"Foreign Minister as well": Kessler, In the Twenties, 441–442.

"he’ll squeal": Quoted in Turner, Hitler’s Thirty Days, 147.

"out of here alive": Albert Wucher, Die Fahne Hod (Munich, 1963), 159.

"collective delirium": Theodor Düsterberg, Die Stahlhelm und Hitler (London, 1949), 41.

"prolonged applause": Adlon, Hotel Adlon, 260.

"wants to vomit": Quoted in Bert Engelmann, Berlin. Eine Stadt wie keine andere (Göttingen, 1991), 250.

"prisoners at Tannenberg": Fromm, Blood and Banquets, 76.

"in your country?": Quoted in Reuth, Goebbels, 164.

Göring directive: Hans-Norbert Bukert, Klaus Matußek, Wolfgang Wippermann, "Machtergreifung" Berlin 1933 (Berlin, 1982), 65.

"exterminate, that’s all": Quoted in Joachim G. Fest, Hitler (New York, 1974), 392.

Reichstag fire: See Ulrich von Hehl, "Die Kontroverse um den Reichstagsbrand," Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 36. Jg. (1988), 259–280; Eckhard Jesse, "Der Reichstagsbrand—55 Jahre danach," Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 1988/4, 195–219; Martin Broszat, "Zum Streit um den Reichstagsbrand," Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 8. Jg. (1960), 275–279.

"God-given signal": Quoted in Sefton Delmer, Trail Sinister (London, 1961), 189.

"hell to pay"; "appointed by parliament": Quoted in Craig, Germany, 577, 578.

"society in the world": Quoted in Walter Leo, Die Steine reden noch (Berlin, 1987), 47.

"wobbly heads": Quoted in Bukert, Matußek, and Wippermann, Machtergreifung, 66.

"manual labor": Rumboldt to Foreign Office, May 3, 1933, PRO, FO 371, 16723/4091.

Köpenicker Blutwoche: Bukert, Matußek, and Wippermann, Machtergreifung, 67.

"the national revolution": Quoted in Kurt Schilde and Johannes Tuchel, Columbia-Haus. Berliner Konzentrationslager 1933–1936 (Berlin, 1990), 31–32.

"the work-ethic": Quoted in Bukert, Matußek, and Wippermann, Machtergreifung, 67.

"loyalty and iron solidarity": Quoted in Korff and Rürup, eds., Berlin, Berlin, 529.

until 1940: On Lippert, see his memoir, Julius Lippert, Im Strom derzeit, Erlebnisse und Eindrücke (Berlin, 1942).

"law, and church": Franz von Papen, Memoirs (London, 1952), 305–307.