Berlin

"the German tempo": Quoted in Brian Ladd, The Ghosts of Berlin. Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape (Chicago, 1997), 129.

"final shipwreck": Sir Nevile Henderson, Failure of a Mission. Berlin 1937–1939 (New York, 1940), 223.

"not be bloodless": Quoted in Fest, Hitler, 572; See also Martin Gilbert and Richard Gott, The Appeasers (London, 1964), 164.

air raid drill and rationing: Engeli and Ribbe, "Berlin in der NS-Zeit," 996–997.

spontaneous celebrations: Shirer, Berlin Diary, 185.

Chapter 7

"newsboys were shouting": Shirer, Berlin Diary, 197.

"into a romantic": Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, Berlin Underground 1938–1945 (New York, 1989), 49.

"no war hysteria"; "war after all": Shirer, Berlin Diary, 200–201, 207.

"degeneration into obscenity": Quoted in Hans-Dieter Schäfer, ed., Berlin im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Munich, 1991), 15.

"in zero weather": George F. Kennan, Memoirs 1925–1950 (Boston, 1967), 107.

"our nation aright": Andreas-Friedrich, Berlin Underground, 54.

Dick-und-Doof: Hans-Dieter Schäfer, Das gespaltene Bewußtsein. Über Deutsche Kultur und Lebenswirklichkeit 1933–1945 (Munich, 1982), 129.

"thousand-year existence": Shirer, Berlin Diary, 333.

from the masses: Ibid., 451–452; Rene Juvet, Ich war dabei . . . 20 Jahre Nationalsozialismus, 1923–1943, Ein Tatsachenbencht (New York, 1944), 106–108.

"would hold out": Quoted in William Manchester, "Undaunted by Odds," Military History Quarterly (Spring 1988), 88.

"place to hit them": Quoted in ibid., 95.

"shouting ‘Heil Hitler’": Quoted in Peter Fritzsche, "Air Conditioning Germany," Military History Quarterly (Spring 1996), 26.

"do to a house"; "live in this town"; "people here"; "massacre the population": Shirer, Berlin Diary, 489, 486–487, 490–491.

Berlin defenses: Martin Middlebrook, The Berlin Raids (Harmondsworth, England, 1990), 25–26.

"freeze on my body": Ibid., 26.

"such a large city": Ibid., 46. See also Richard Overy, Why the Allies Won (New York, 1995), 120; also Gerhard L. Weinberg, A World at Arms (New York, 1994), 578.

"bombenlose Nacht": Howard K. Smith, The Last Train from Berlin (New York, 1942), 62.

"four hours’ sleep": Marie Vassiltchikov, Berlin Diaries 1940–1945 (New York, 1988), 28–29.

"newspaper by it": Harry W. Flannery, Assignment to Berlin (New York, 1942), 227–28.

"Casserole Day": Vassiltchikov, Berlin Diaries, 36.

"Johnnies": Smith, Last Train, 127.

"prey to delusions": Domarus, ed., Reden und Proklamationen, II, 1714.

"has just been subtracted": Quoted in Buffet, Berlin, 342.

attack the Soviet Union: Gerhard L. Weinberg, Germany, Hitler, and World War II (New York, 1995), 160–162.

"nation on earth"; space for him; "all seven floors": Smith, Last Train, 115–135.

"complaint was forthcoming": Flannery, Assignment, 261.

"Jew cities": Quoted in Reuth, Goebbels, 275.

"as we would wish it"; "large number of Jews"; revamping of Berlin": Quoted in ibid., 277, 298.

Star of David: Kurt Jakob Ball-Kaduri, "Berlin wird Judenfrei. Die Juden in Berlin in den Jahren 1942/43," Jahrbuch für die Geschichte Mittel- und Ostdeutschlands. Bd. 22 (1973), 201.

were drastically reduced: Hans Günther Adler, Der verwaltete Mensch: Studien zur Deportation der Juden aus Deutschland (Tübingen, 1974), 50–51.

"and self-torture"; "at the butcher’s": Deutschkron, Outcast, 65, 98.

"out of place here": Quoted in Reuth, Goebbels, 299.

"processing of the transport": Deutschkron, Outcast, 114.

"or other impositions": Quoted in Wolfgang Wippermann, Steinerne Zeugen. Stätten der Judenverfolgung in Berlin (Berlin, 1982), 60.

"Technocrats of Death"; "further into the East": Quoted in ibid., 17.

watched the transports depart: Kaplan, Between Dignity and Despair, 198.

"befallen their fellow citizens": Ibid.

"tortures, and gassings": Andreas-Friedrich, Berlin Underground, 83.

"terribly little to help": Ursula von Kardorff, Berliner Aufzeichnungen 1942 bis 1945 (Munich, 1992), 44.