Berlin

"no time at all"; "hell of a fix"; "air strength"; "as it developed": Quoted in ibid., 17–18.

"you beat him"; "relieve the distress"; "when birds walked"; "blockade is ended": Quoted in ibid., 18–20.

"Russians the airlift"; "trains are moving": Quoted in ibid., 20–21.

"Americans against the Russians": Quoted in Volker Koop, Kein Kampf um Berlin? Deutsche Politik zur Zeit der Berlin Blokade 1948/49 (Bonn, 1988), 13.

Berlin after all: Ibid.

"enemy of the sea": Quoted in Dennis L. Bark and David R. Gress, A History of West Germany. Vol. 1: From Shadow to Substance (Oxford, 1989), 321.

"Mongolian": Arnulf Baring, Aussenpolitik in Adenauers Kanzlerdemokratie (Munich, 1969), 53.

"a pagan city": Quoted in Reiner Pommerin, Von Berlin nach Bonn, 45.

"east is occupied"; "[Wilhelm Hoegner]": Quoted in ibid., 47, 51.

"deference to reality": John Le Carré, A Small Town in Germany (New York, 1983), 17.

"mission in a cornfield": Quoted in Michael Z. Wise, Capital Dilemma. Germany’s Search for a New Architecture of Democracy (New York, 1988), 24.

"it was a beginning": Quoted in ibid., 23.

East Berlin street names: See Maoz Azaryahu, "Street Names and Identity: The Case of East Berlin," Journal of Contemporary History 21:4 (October 1986), 581–604; Dirk Verheyen, "What’s in a Name? Street Name Politics and Urban Identity in Berlin," German Politics and Society 15:3 (Fall 1997), 44–72.

also very poor: See Günter Braun, "Der Wiederaufbau Berlins—Eine Stadt auf dem Weg zu neuen Aufgaben," in Industrie und Handelskammer zu Berlin, ed., Berlin undseine Wirtschaft (Berlin, 1987), 223–230.

"engagement of Bonn for Berlin": Quoted in Windsor, City on Leave, 135.

building rivalry: See Bruno Flierl, Berlin baut um—Wessen Stadt wird die Stadt? (Berlin, 1998), 27; Josef Paul Kleihues, "From the Destruction to the Critical Reconstruction of the City: Urban Design in Berlin after 1945," in Kleihues and Rathgeber, eds., Berlin/New York, 395–409.

a utopian dream: See Jeffry M. Diefendorf, In the Wake of War. The Reconstruction of German Cities after World War II (New Yotk, 1993), 191–194; Ladd, Ghosts of Berlin, 177–178.

"national consciousness of the people": Quoted in Jörn Düwel, "Berlin: Planen im Kalten Krieg," in Marita Gleiss, ed., 1945, Kriegs, Zerstorung, Aufbau: Architecten und Stadtplanung 1940–1960 (Berlin, 1995), 208.

Stalinallee: See Ladd, Ghosts of Berlin, 181–188; Tilo Köhler, Unser die Strasse—Unser der Sieg. Die Stalinalle (Berlin, 1993).

in Western hands: "Zuhause unter Fremden," Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 17/18, 1999.

"can find expression": Quoted in Ladd, Ghosts of Berlin, 56.

"unglorious past": Quoted in Wise, Capital Dilemma, 43.

"point for German reunification": Quoted in Cullen, Reichstag, 403.

cultural barbarism: Wolf Jobst Siedler, Die gemordete Stadt (Berlin, 1978); "Scheußliche neue Schönheit," SüddeutscheZeitung, Aug. 24/25, 1985.

Hansaviertel: Ladd, Ghosts of Berlin, 188–189; Kleihues, "From the Destruction," 399–400.

"shown in our city": "Als die Welt noch überschaubar war," Der Tagesspiegel, June 6, 1999.

"all the horrors began": Ibid.

expelled from their homes: On the border installations, see David Shears, The Ugly Frontier (New York, 1970).

emigration from the GDR: See David E. Murphy, Sergei A. Kondrashev, and George Bailey, Battleground Berlin. CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War (New Haven, Conn., 1997), 156.

"low work norms": Carola Stern, Walter Ulbricht. Eine politische Biographie (Berlin, 1963), 140.

"will of the masses": Ibid., 144.

rescinding of norm increases: On this and other details of the uprising, see Arnulf Baring, Uprising in East Germany (Ithaca, 1972).

"all the Russians dead": Quoted in Richie, Faust’s Metropolis, 685.

absence of support from intelligentsia: See "In der Gaststätte ‘Rüberzahl’ ruft der Brigadier zum Streik auf," Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 19, 1993.

"Socialist Unity Party of Germany": Quoted in Fuegi, Brecht, 543–544.

"and elected another?": Quoted in ibid., 549.

"face of the German working class": Quoted in "Ich habe der Arbeiterklasse ins Antlitz geschaut," Der Tagesspiegel, June 17, 1993.