"the case of war?": Quoted in Bering, Outpost, 222.
"part of us": Quoted in Michael Simmons, Deutschland und Berlin. Geschichte einer Hauptstadt 1871–1990 (Berlin, 1990), 285.
"never forget that": Quoted in McElvoy, Saddled Cow, 82.
Luther’s rehabilitation: Robert F. Goeckel, "The Luther Anniversary in East Germany," World Politics 37 (October 1984), 112–33.
exhumation of Goethe: "The Sorrows of Goethe," New York Times, March 19, 1999.
Prussian revivaclass="underline" See I. R. Martin, "The Changing Image of Prussia in the German Democratic Republic," German Life and Letters 37:1 (1983), 57–70.
"international musical world": "Im Grunde ein Wunder," Der Weltspiegel, June 26, 1994.
"its history and culture": Quoted in Weiss, "Panem et Circenses," 249.
Dom restoration: "Die Heimkehr des verlorenen Sohnes," Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 4, 1993.
Nikolaivierteclass="underline" See Ladd, Ghosts of Berlin, 44–47.
"typical workers’ neighborhood": Ibid., 108.
"Palazzo Prozi": "Vom Palast der Republik zum Ballast der Bundesrepublik?" Der Tagesspiegel, March 27, 1993.
"weht er Mauern fort": Ibid.
act as they did: Timothy Garton Ash, The File. A Personal History (New York, 1997).
a Stasi informer: Peter Schneider, The German Comedy. Scenes of Life after the Wall (New York, 1991), 114.
banana joke: Clemens de Wroblewski, "Hauptstadt Berlin. Ein Witz," in Wilczek, ed., Hauptstadt der DDR, 247.
"double contrast": Timothy Garton Ash, In Europe’s Name. Germany and the Divided Continent (New York, 1993), 200.
"Nischengesellschaft": Hans-Joachim Maaz, Behind the Wall. The Inner Life of Communist Germany (New York, 1993), xv.
"We’ll finish the job": Timo Zilli, Folterzelle 36 (Berlin, 1993), 36, 8.
95,847 marks a head: Whitney, Spy Trader, 168–169.
three billion marks: Ibid., xxxv.
"firm position of socialism": Quoted in McElvoy, Saddled Cow, 150.
more restraint: "Scharfmaul und Prahlhaus," Die Zeit, Sept. 27, 1991.
Biermann expulsion: See Horst Domdey, "Der Anfang vom Ende. 1976, Wolf Biermanns Ausbürgerung," in Wilczek, ed., Berlin—Hauptstadt der DDR, 175–191.
"state he supported": Quoted in "Deutschland im Herbst," Der Tagesspiegel, Nov. 15, 1996.
"spirit of reflection": Quoted in McElvoy, Saddled Cow, 152.
"will be crushed": Quoted in Domdey, "Der Anfang vom Ende," 181.
Distel Cabaret: "Nichts mehr gegeben," Der Tagesspiegel, Oct. 31, 1993.
"Are Communists Allowed to Dream?": Taylor, Berlin and its Culture, 358.
East Berlin Rock: See Peter Wicke, "Der King vom Prenzlauer Berg. Vom Mythos des Rock in einer sozialistischen Metropole," in Wilczek, ed., Berlin—Hauptstadt der DDR, 236–246.
"our working-class youth": Quoted in Richie, Faust’s Metropolis, 753.
"Die Mauer muss weg": Quoted in Steinhage and Flemming, Berlin 1945–1989, 263.
one and the same: On the Prenzlauer Berg scene, see Klaus Michael, "Prenzlauer Berg. Streifzüge durch eine Kulturlandschaft," in Wilczek, ed., Berlin—Hauptstadt der DDR, 192–215; Philip Brady, "‘Wir hausen im Prenzlauer Berg’: On the Very Last Generation of GDR Poets," in Walter Pape, ed., 1870/71–1989/90. German Unifications and the Change of Literary Discourse (Berlin/New York, 1993), 278–301.
"end for the GDR": Quoted in "Deutschland im Herbst," Der Tagesspiegel, Nov. 15, 1996.
negotiations with the GDR: Ash, In Europe’s Name, 38.
"blood and iron": Die Zeit, July 10, 1987.
"Brandenburg Gate remains closed": U.S. Department of State, Documents on Germany 1944–1985 (Washington, D.C., 1985), 1415.
Chapter 10
"one city again": Eberhard Diepgen, ed., Erlebte Einheit. Ein deutsches Lesebuch (Berlin, 1985), 8.
"fearless East Germans": "For the Wall’s Fall, East Germans Are Given Their Due," New York Times, Nov. 10, 1999.
"elder statesman": Quoted in McElvoy, Saddled Cow, 191–192.
"opposing alliances": Quoted in Bark and Gress, A History of West Germany. Vol. 2: Democracy and Its Discontents, 499.
"by the regime": Quoted in McElvoy, Saddled Cow, 193.
refused to disperse: On the Leipzig demonstrations, see Charles S. Maier, Dissolution. The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany (Princeton, 1997), 135–146; Wolf-Jürgen Grabner, Christiane Heinze, and Detlef Pollack, eds., Leipzig im Oktober. Kirchen und alternative Gruppen im Umbruch der DDR. Analysen aur Wende (Berlin, 1990).
"Europe as a whole": Quoted in Hans-Hermann Hertle, Chronik des Mauerfalls (Berlin, 1996), 71.
"regret at their departure": Quoted in ibid., 74.
another one hundred years: On East Berlin’s relatively small role in the early phase of the 1989 revolution, see Wolfgang Templin, "Gesamt-Berlin—Eine Fiktion?" in Werner Süß and Ralf Rytlewski, eds., Berlin. Die Hauptstadt (Berlin, 1999), 334–337.
"uncertainty, even fear": G. Jonathan Greenwald, Berlin Witness. An American Diplomat’s Chronicle of East Germany’s Revolution (University Park, Pa., 1995), 169.
"Don’t panic": Quoted in ibid., 171.
"to be here"; "matter of morality": Ulrike Bresch, ed., Oktober 1989. Wider den Schlaf der Vernunft (Berlin, 1990), 49, 9.
"could be a bloodbath": Greenwald, Berlin Witness, 176–177.
"worse than ours": Quoted in Maier, Dissolution, 155.
reached themselves: Günter Schabowski, Das Politbüro (Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1990), 71–111.
"We’ve won!": McElvoy, Saddled Cow, 200–201; Maier, Dissolution, 156–157; "Wende und Ende des DDR Staates (3)," Der Spiegel, 41/1999, 77–109.
"Curse of the Pharaoh": Maier, Dissolution, 158.
November 4 rally in East Berlin: Greenwald, Witness, 242–248; Harold James and Maria Stone, eds., When the Wall Came Down. Reactions to German Unification (London/New York, 1992), 125–129.
"flee the Republic": Quoted in McElvoy, Saddled Cow, 203–204.
"including Berlin-West": Quoted in Hertle, Chronik, 141–148.
take place on November 9: Among the myriad accounts of this intoxicating moment, see, in addition to the above-cited works, Hedda Angermann, ed., Aufbrüche. Dokumentation zur Wende in der DDR (Munich, 1991).
past twenty-eight years: Schneider, German Comedy, 37.
proposed demolition of Wall for credits: Hertle, Chronik, 92–103.
Kohl trip to West Berlin: Klaus Dreher, Helmut Kohl. Leben mit Macht (Stuttgart, 1998), 455–457.
"grow with one another": Quoted in James and Stone, eds., When the Wall Came Down, 42.
"and with solidarity": Quoted in ibid., 47–48.
Round Table discussions": Maier, Dissolution, 168–184; Konrad H. Jarausch, The Rush to German Unity (New York, 1994), 75–94.
"delicate balance of Europe": Hugh Trevor-Roper, "On the Unification of Germany," The Independent, June 17, 1989. For an analysis of Western reactions to German unification, see Gert-Joachim Glaessner and Ian Wallace, eds., The German Revolution of 1989: Causes and Consequences (Oxford, 1992).