"only the Israelites": Quoted in Kaes, Jay, and Dimendberg, eds., Weimar Sourcebook, 500.
"or village untouched": Joseph Goebbels, Kampf um Berlin (Munich, 1934), 11. On the Nazi Party in Berlin at the time of Goebbels’s arrival, see Martin Broszat, "Die Anfänge der Berliner NSDAP 1926/27," Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 8. Jg. (1960), 85–117.
"immense bat-shadow of home": Quoted in Richard Davenport-Hines, Auden (New York, 1995), 88.
"grubby old men"; "uncartesian world of Berlin": Ibid., 87.
"under police control": Peppiatt, Bacon, 29.
Auden and Isherwood: For a study of these English writers’ encounter with Berlin, see Norman Page, Auden and Isherwood. The Berlin Years (New York, 1998).
"as I was doing": John Lehmann, In the Purely Pagan Sense (London, 1985), 44.
"to bed together": Davenport-Hines, Auden, 97.
"mass of bruises": Quoted in Humphrey Carpenter, W. H. Auden. A Biography (London, 1993), 90.
"will be good"; "were shaking": Ibid., 86.
"Berlin meant boys": Christopher Isherwood, Christopher and His Kind (New York, 1976), 2.
"working-class foreigner"; "masquerade of perversions"; "the entire nation": Ibid., 3, 29, 4.
"suitable viewer appeared"; "distasteful customs"; "potent ingredients": Ibid., 16, 29, 43.
"a bankrupt middle class": Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin (Harmondsworth, England, 1945), 7.
"luggage of her lodgers": Ibid., 8.
"synonym for stupidity": Quoted in Paul Bowles, Without Stopping. An Autobiography (New York, 1972), 109–111; Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno, An Invisible Spectator (New York, 1989), 100–102.
Hamilton: On Gerald Hamilton, see Isherwood, Christopher and His Kind, 72–78; also Gerald Hamilton, Mr. Norris and I (London, 1956).
"Deutschland Erwache!": Stephen Spender, World Within World (London, 1951), 130.
"friction, and sparks": Quoted in Willet, Art and Politics, 177.
Sklarek scandaclass="underline" Köhler, "Berlin in der Weimarer Republik," 868–875.
"become a circus director": Quoted in Stremmel, Modell, 146.
"boldest dreams": Quoted in Reuth, Goebbels, 109.
"establish a dictatorship": Kessler, In the Twenties, 367–368.
liability for the nation: British Embassy Report, Jan. 27, 1930, Public Record Office, FO 371, 14357/934.
"also need a face?": Quoted in Steven Bach, Marlene Dietrich. Life and Legend (New York, 1992), 107–108.
"your pubic hair": Ibid., 113.
"corrupting kitsch": Ibid., 141.
"spirit never dead": Quoted in Reuth, Goebbels, 113.
Kreuzberg and Köpenick: Christian Engeli and Wolfgang Ribbe, "Berlin in der NS-Zeit," in Ribbe, ed., Geschichte Berlin’s, II, 990; see also Reuth, Goebbels, 120.
"lounging about and demonstrating": Kessler, In the Twenties, 399–400.
"prudent thing to do": Bella Fromm, Blood and Banquets (New York, 1990), 27.
"on their seats, shrieking": Leni Riefenstahl, A Memoir (New York, 1995), 62.
Berlin Schutzpolizei: See Hsi-huey Liang, The Berlin Police Force in the Weimar Republic (Berkeley, 1970), 91. See also Modris Eksteins, "War, Memory, and Politics: The Fate of the Film All Quiet on the Western Front," Central European History, Vol. 13 (1980), 60–80.
"anything like it": Quoted in Reuth, Goebbels, 125.
"not a cent more": Zuckmayer, Als wär’s ein Stück von mir, 379–380.
"serious music is on the way": Quoted in Heyworth, Klemperer, I, 383.
"future time": Quoted in Alan Balfour, Berlin. The Politics of Order 1737–1989 (New York, 1990), 65.
fate of Bauhaus: Willet, Art and Politics, 208; Elaine S. Hochman, Architects of Fortune. Mies van der Rohe and the Third Reich (New York, 1990), 73–105.
"espionage and treason": Quoted in Deak, Weimar Germany’s Left-Wing Intellectuals, 190–192.
"cannot support that": Quoted in Heyworth, Klemperer, I, 378.
stodgy and backward looking: David Clay Large, Where Ghosts Walked: Munich’s Road to the Third Reich (New York, 1998), 202–206.
"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.