Berlin

"let him take Berlin": Quoted in John Keegan, "Berlin," Military History Quarterly (Winter 1990), 77. See also Christopher Duffy, Red Storm on the Reich. The Soviet March on Germany (New York, 1991), 297.

Hitler’s bunker: Anthony Read and David Fisher, The Fall of Berlin (New York, 1993), 222.

"go down fighting": Quoted in Keegan, "Berlin," 73.

"the last bullet": Quoted in Engeli and Ribbe, "Berlin in der NS-Zeit," 1022.

"could not escape": Kardorff, Berliner Aufzeichnungen, 119.358

"why should the dead?"; "he’ll have company": Schäfer, ed., Zweiter Weltkrieg, 295, 289.

alcohol and morphine: Douglas Botting, From the Ruins of the Reich. Germany 1945–1949 (New York, 1985), 64.

Speer plan to kill Hitler: Speer, Inside the Third Reich, 429–431.

summarily executed: Reuth, Goebbels, 356.

"die without honor": Quoted in Reinhard Rürup, ed., Berlin 1945. Eine Dokumentation (Berlin, 1995), 32.

"kept in hiding": Quoted in Norman M. Naimark, The Russians in Germany. A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation 1945–1949 (Cambridge, Mass., 1995), 80.

"sent you here"; "Fascist lair": Quoted in ibid., 77.

"service to the German people": Ada Petrova and Peter Watson, The Death of Hitler (New York, 1995), 36.

Hitler’s and Braun’s deaths: account here based largely on ibid.

Goebbels’ and family’s death: Reuth, Goebbels, 360–363.

"a businesslike manner": Quoted in Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Last Days of Hitler (New York, 1962), 265.

"claimed any more victims": Quoted in Hans-Norbert Burkert, Klaus Matußek, Doris Obschernitzski, Zerstört, Besiegt, Befreit. Der Kampf um Berlin bis zur Kapitulation 1945 (Berlin, 1985), 176.

Hitler’s corpse identification: Petrova and Watson, Death of Hitler, 56.

Hitler sightings: see Donald M. McKale, Hitler. The Survival Myth (New York, 1981).

"Living God": "Hitler Is Alive?" Weekly World News, Nov. 21, 1989.

Chapter 8

"goods are hot!": Quoted in Lally, Wilder Times, 177.

"role in my childhood": Gilbert, European Past, 5.

"bike from you yet?": Margret Boveri, Tags des Überlebens. Berlin 1945 (Frankfurt, 1966), 109–110.

"Führer and Chancellor": Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, Battleground Berlin. Diaries 1945–1948 (New York, 1990), 23–26.

"were to meet": Ladd, Ghosts of Berlin, 194.

"symbols of abundance and fertility": Anonymous, A Woman in Berlin (New York, 1955), 70.

unable to protect her. Andreas-Friedrich, Battleground, 16–17.

fabled Western metropolis: For accounts of Red Army rapine in Berlin, see Naimark, The Russians in Berlin, 69–140; and Erich Kuby, The Russians and Berlin 1945 (London, 1965), 260–288.

"aren’t over yet": Andreas-Friedrich, Battleground, 36.

electrical generating capability: Philip Windsor, City on Leave. A History of Berlin 1945–1962 (London, 1963), 35–38.

cultural removals: Naimark, The Russians in Berlin, 175–178; Moorehead, Lost and Found, 276–282; Lynn H. Nichols, The Rape of Europa. The Fate of Europe’s Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War (New York, 1994), 361–364.

"city of progress": Wolfgang Leonhard, Child of the Revolution (Chicago, 1985), 318.

"tense and demoralized"; "You now mayor"; "in our control"; "got our deputy": Ibid., 298, 302, 303, 315.

"odor of death": Robert Murphy, Diplomat Among Warriors (New York, 1964), 257.

"time and history": Ibid., 259.

"our occupation zone": Lucius Clay, Decision in Germany (New York, 1950), 15.

"all the arrangements": Quoted in Richard Brett-Smith, Berlin ’45. The Grey City (London, 1966), 48.

"are not human": Hans Speier, From the Ashes of Disgrace. A Journal of Germany 1945–1955 (Amherst, Mass., 1981), 26.

"urgently each night": Andreas-Friedrich, Battleground, 65.

"for the Germans": Quoted in Brett-Smith, Berlin ’45, 44.

requisitioning 125 homes: Botting, Ruins, 215.

"best French champagne": Curt Riess, Berlin Berlin! 1945–1953 (Berlin, n.d.), 64.

"a paradise": Ibid.

"girls the moon": Quoted in Alexandra Richie, Faust’s Metropolis (New York, 1998), 640.