"alive in Germany": Quoted in Dippel, Bound, 248.
"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.
"to handle filthy Jews": Quoted in Nathan Stoltzfus, Resistance of the Heart. Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany (New York, 1996), 183.
"is to be ‘Jew-free’": Andreas-Friedrich, Berlin Underground, 90.
"become free of Jews": Quoted in Stoltzfus, Resistance of the Heart, 212.
Judenfrei: Quoted in Kaplan, Between Dignity and Despair, 232.
deportation figures: Peter Wyden, Stella (New York, 1992), 189–190.
"ranks were thinning"; "happening in their streets": Deutschkron, Outcast, 111, 123–124.
until the Nazi collapse: For a compelling account of the underground lives of the Jewish survivors in Berlin, see Leonard Gross, The Last Jews in Berlin (New York, 1982).
"no visible damage"; "victim of the Jews": Quoted in Wyden, Stella, 152, 254–255.
Baum Group: See Wolfgang Wippermann, Die Berliner Gruppe Baum und der jüdische Widerstand (Berlin, 1981).
Rosenstrasse protest: See Stoltzfus, Resistance of the Heart.
"from them again"; "husbands back"; "extremely dangerous": Quoted in ibid., 213, 235, 237.
need for ground invasion: Arthur Harris, Bomber Offensive (London, 1947), 73–76.
"German war effort": Quoted in Overy, Why the Allies Won, 117.
mockup of Berlin apartments: "Angriff auf ‘German Village,’" Der Spiegel 41/1999, 238–243.
Berlin soldiers’ death figures: Stoltzfus, Resistance of the Heart, 196–197.
"storm, break loose!": Quoted in Reuth, Goebbels, 316.
signs of defeatism: Marlis G. Steinert, Hitler’s War and the Germans (Athens, Ohio, 1977), 186.
"on the defensive": Ian Kershaw, The ‘Hitler Myth’: Images and Reality in the Third Reich (Oxford, 1987), 187.
"do so anymore": Kardorff, Berliner Aufzeichnungen, 62–63.
August 23/24, 1943 raid: Middlebrook, Berlin Raids, 71–72.
November/December, 1943 raids: Ibid., 123–139. See also Earl R. Beck, Under the Bombs. The German Home Front, 1942–1945 (Lexington, Ky., 1986).
"what happens next": Engeli and Ribbe, "Berlin in der NS-Zeit," 1015.
final weeks of agony: Wessling, Karajan, 98.
"preserve its good humor"; DTU: Quoted in Kater, Drummers, 124, 168.
face of adversity: Linda Schulte-Saxe, "Retrieving the City as Heimat: Berlin in Nazi Cinema," in Haxthausen and Suhr, eds., Berlin, 177–180.
not fit to serve: Martin Kitchen, Nazi Germany at War (London, 1995), 270.
Kolberg: Anton Kaes, From Hitler to Heimat. The Return of History as Film (Cambridge, Mass., 1989), 2–4.