Berlin

"die Juden zu brei": Quoted in Krüger, Die Olympische Spiele, 229.

"front for the general visitors": William L. Shirer, Berlin Diary (New York, 1941), 65.

foreign press reports: Jürgen Bellers, ed., Die Olympiade Berlin 1936 im Spiegel der ausländischen Presse (Münster, 1986), 232–233; 20–21, 51–52.

"invent one"; "ever been built"; "I yelled": Quoted in David Herbert Donald, Look Homeward. A Life of Thomas Wolfe (New York, 1988), 385, 386.

"man of the hour in Germany": Quoted in Mandell, Nazi Olympics, 227.

"experienced such passion": Riefenstahl, Memoir, 199.

Olympia: For an analysis of the film, see Cooper C. Graham, Leni Riefenstahl and Olympia (Metuchen, N.J., 1986).

"forced themselves": Quoted in Reuth, Goebbels, 219.

"collect his thoughts": Quoted in ibid. On the anniversary, see Engeli and Ribbe, "Berlin in der NS-Zeit," 972; and Gerhard Weiss, "Panem et Circenses: Berlin’s Anniversaries as Political Happenings," in Charles W. Haxthausen and Heidrun Suhr, eds., Berlin: Culture and Metropolis (Minneapolis, 1991), 244–246.

"Germania": See Hans J. Reichardt and Wolfgang Schäche, Von Berlin nach Germania. Ausstellungskatolog (Berlin, 1986); Barbara Miller Lane, Architecture and Politics in Germany 1918–1945 (Cambridge, Mass., 1968).

"traitorous elements": Quoted in Rudy Koshar, Germany’s Transient Pasts. Preservation and National Memory in the Twentieth Century (Chapel Hill, 1998), 164.

"a sublime metropolis": Quoted in Hochman, Architects of Fortune, 259.

"hang the expense": Quoted in David Irving, Göring. A Biography (New York, 1990), 153.

"a zero": Quoted in Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth (New York, 1995), 140.

"politics"; "from the Communists"; "dusty bureaucrats": Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich (New York, 1970), 17, 22, 53.

"stone abutments"; "law of ruins": Ibid. 55–56.

"greatest of all plans"; "Paris and Vienna"; "about that"; "soap company": Ibid., 73, 75, 102.

"master of the world": Jochmann, ed., Monologe, 101–102.

"move out"; "only by war": Speer, Inside the Third Reich, 75.

"horrible sexual degenerate": Denis Mack Smith, Mussolini (New York, 1982), 185.

"history themselves"; "loose upon it": François-Poncet, Fateful Years, 246.

"delirious joy": Shirer, Berlin Diary, 149.

Niemöller resistance: Engeli and Ribbe, "Berlin in der NS-Zeit," 961.

Catholics and Nazism in Berlin: Ibid., 964–968; Cécile Lowenthal-Hensel, 50 Jahre Bistum Berlin. Menschen und Ereignisse 1930–1945 (Berlin, 1980).

"from the grass roots": John Cornwell, Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII (New York, 1999), 7.

Polish Jew expulsions: Leni Yahil, The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932–1945 (New York, 1991), 109.

"spontaneous anti-Jewish riots": Goebbels, Die Tagebücher, III, 1281.

"crystal night": See Walter H. Pehle, ed., November 1938: From ‘Reichskristallnacht’ to Genocide (New York, 1991).

"torn records"; "desired and expected purpose": Quoted in Dippel, Bound, 245.

"army of vandals"; "by a hurricane": Gay, My German Question, 133–135.

"degradation ritual": Marion A. Kaplan, Between Dignity and Despair. Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (New York, 1998), 122.

"the German nightmare": Gay, My German Question, 134.

"for God’s sake": Inge Deutschkron, Outcast. A Jewish Girl in Wartime Berlin (New York, 1989), 35–36.

"disturbed by the events": Quoted in Reuth, Goebbels, 240–241.

"do things like that"; "private property": Quoted in Read and Fisher, Berlin Rising, 217.

"can be sure of that": Quoted in Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners. Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (New York, 1996), 101.

"airhead Goebbels": Quoted in Richard Breitman, The Architect of Genocide. Himmler and the Final Solution (New York, 1991), 53.

"a nice bloodletting": Quoted in Reuth, Goebbels, 241.

"ghetto decree"; 75,000 remained: Engeli and Ribbe, "Berlin in der NS-Zeit," 958.

"alive in Germany": Quoted in Dippel, Bound, 248.