Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power (58 page)

78
one family’s diet:
Ibid., 58.

78
The head of a district health department:
Ibid., 75.

78
“
fascinated by”
and rest of exchange with streetwalkers:
Ibid., 12–16.

78
“
Do you have a fascist party”
and rest of exchange with German Jews:
Ibid., 38–39.

79
“
Hitlerism is rapidly going”:
Ibid., 29.

79
“
One felt as if”:
Ibid., 67.

79
“
showmanship”
and “
So this was”:
Ibid., 68, 70.

80
“
like a faithful dog”
and rest of Corwin’s visit to Heidelberg:
R. LeRoy Bannerman,
On a Note of Triumph: Norman Corwin and the Golden Years of Radio
, 22.

80
“
We are beyond”:
Ibid., 22–23.

80
On Saturday, December 5, 1931
, and quotes from Hitler and Sackett at and about their meeting:
Bernard V. Burke,
Ambassador Frederic Sackett and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic, 1930–1933
, 8–9, 185–186.

81
“
If only I”
and rest of scene between Hitler and Helen:
Niemeyer interviewed by Toland, Library of Congress.

82
“
I felt Hitler”:
Hanfstaengl, 123.

82
“
Why don’t you find”:
Niemeyer interviewed by Toland.

82
“
an empty-headed”:
Hanfstaengl, 162.

82
“
I always had the feeling”:
Niemeyer interviewed by Toland.

82
Otto Strasser
and his claims about Geli and Hitler:
Ronald Hayman,
Hitler + Geli
, 145.

83
“
The whole affair”:
Hanfstaengl, 165.

83
“
of an American woman”
and “
a German propagandist”:
Dorothy Thompson, “
I Saw Hitler!
,” 3–4.

83
“
lofty and remote”:
Ibid., 5.

83
“
Fussy. Amusing”:
Ibid., 13.

83
“
an immense, high-strung”:
Peter Kurth,
American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson
, 160.

83
John Farrar:
Marion K. Sanders,
Dorothy Thompson: A Legend in Her Time
, 166.

84
“
The times in which”:
Thompson, vi.

84
“
Gone ‘legal’”:
Ibid., 4.

84
“
terrorizes the streets”:
Ibid., 12.

84
“
When finally I walked”:
Ibid., 13.

85
“
He is formless”:
Ibid., 13–14.

85
“
an insignificant”
and contrast with Hindenburg and Brüning:
Ibid., 14–15.

85
“
The Jews are”:
Ibid., 34.

85
“
Hitler’s tragedy”:
Ibid., 35.

85
“
If Hitler comes into”:
Ibid., 36.

86
“
Mrs. Lewis, the wife”
and rest of Ludecke-Hitler exchange:
Ludecke,
I Knew Hitler
, 531.

86
One of Putzi’s classmates
and rest of Harvard connections with Kaltenborn:
H. V. Kaltenborn,
Fifty Fabulous Years, 1900–1950
, 51.

86
“
felt that any”
and details of interview procedures:
Hans V. Kaltenborn, “An Interview with Hitler,”
Wisconsin Magazine of History
, Summer 1967.

87
“
Why does your”
and Hitler’s response:
Kaltenborn,
Fifty Fabulous Years
, 186–187.

87
“
he has no capacity”:
Kaltenborn, “An Interview with Hitler.”

88
“
A dictatorship is”:
Kaltenborn,
Fifty Fabulous Years
, 188.

88
“
I could understand”:
Kaltenborn, “An Interview with Hitler.”

88
“
After meeting Hitler”:
Kaltenborn,
Fifty Fabulous Years
, 186.

88
“
Most people”:
Ibid., 185.

CHAPTER FOUR
: “
I WILL SHOW THEM
”

PAGE

89
“
I’ll give the Hitlerites”
and other quotes from Lochner:
Louis Lochner,
Always the Unexpected
, 209–210.

90
“
it was obviously”:
Burke,
Ambassador Frederic Sackett
, 262.

90
“
rule alone”
and descriptions of Hitler and Goebbels:
Ibid., 247.

91
“
I am told that”
and “
The Nazi meetings”:
Plotkin, 102–103.

91
“
the bloody Jews”
and “
run out of his control”
and “
like a bunch of schoolboys”:
Ibid., 108.

91
“
a banker named Arnholt”
and “
Merely wondering”
along with the rest of Mowrer account:
Mowrer,
Triumph and Turmoil
, 212.

92
“
I am going to Munich”
and rest of Schacht-Mowrer exchange:
Ibid., 213.

92
“
whenever a political melodrama”
and rest of Fromm-Wiegand exchange:
Fromm, 62–63.

93
While Ambassador Sackett:
Burke, 274.

93
“
The German government”
and “
I do not think”:
Fromm, 67.

93
At an “intimate” dinner
and rest of Schleicher-Fromm exchange:
Ibid., 68–69.

94
“
dancing between four masters”
and rest of Plettl-Plotkin exchange:
Plotkin, 122–123.

95
“
in no way alarmed”
and “
rapidly increasing”:
Burke, 277.

95
“
sudden and unexpected”:
Ibid., 281.

95
“
We have hired Hitler”
and “
in the driver’s seat”:
Lochner,
Always the Unexpected
, 210–211.

95
He had arrived in Germany:
Bouton, “My Years in Germany” (Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Institute of Public Affairs, Ninth Annual Session, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, January 23–25, 1935), S. Miles Bouton Papers, box 4, Hoover.

96
“
It requires no great skill”:
“Bouton, Home from Europe, Tells of Germany in 1925,”
Baltimore Sun
, box 1, Hoover.

96
“
Read that treaty”:
Bouton Collection, box 4, Hoover.

96
“
It was several minutes”:
“A Veteran Journalist Reports,” c. 1962, Bouton Papers, box 6, Hoover.

96
“
does not come into consideration”:
Untitled copy of dispatch dated August 9, 1930, Bouton Papers, box 1, Hoover.

96
“
For the last five years”:
Bouton, “My Years in Germany,” box 4, Hoover.

97
“
represents a remarkable”
and rest of quotes from original manuscript of March 1932 article “Hitler’s Shadow Across Germany”:
Bouton Papers, box 1, Hoover.

98
“
That they put me down”
and rest of Lochner’s letter:
“Round Robins from Berlin: Louis P. Lochner’s Letters to His Children, 1932–1941,”
Wisconsin Magazine of History
, Summer 1967.

99
“
foreigners and Jews”
and rest of Lilian Mowrer’s account, including description of Edgar Mowrer’s conversations with Nazis over beers:
Lilian Mowrer, 266–268.

100
“
But I have only heard”
and rest of Lilian’s conversation with her daughter:
Ibid., 275.

100
“
sick of everything”
and other quotes from book:
Mowrer,
Germany Puts the Clock Back
, 196–198.

100
“
Did he believe”:
Ibid., 194.

101
“
I could see the man’s face”:
Sigrid Schultz,
Germany Will Try It Again
, 87–88.

101
“
While others slept”:
Mowrer,
Germany Puts the Clock Back
, 207.

101
“
singularly unmoved”
and “
Certainly it was”:
Hanfstaengl, 196.

102
“
I sent for”
and “
was, needless to”:
Ibid., 199.

102
“
In strode”
and rest of dinner description:
Lochner,
Always the Unexpected
, 186–187.

103
“
a court jester”
and account of Messersmith-Hanfstaengl encounter:
Jesse H. Stiller,
George S. Messersmith: Diplomat of Democracy
, 40.

103
“
I knew he was crazy”:
Lilian Mowrer, 299.

104
“
secret” Jew:
Mowrer,
Triumph and Turmoil
, 219.

104
“
Of course, he is”:
Richard Breitman, Barbara McDonald Stewart and Severin Hochberg, eds.,
Advocate for the Doomed: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1932–1935
, 28.

104
“
Edgar a Jew?”:
Mowrer,
Triumph and Turmoil
, 219.

104
According to Putzi:
Hanfstaengl, 175.

104
“
the greatest torchlight procession”
and “
Hitler stationed himself”:
Manuscript of article for
Public Ledger
, May 15, 1933, H. R. Knickerbocker Papers, Columbia.

104
“
The Nazis will make”:
Burke, 282.

104
“
the purely political”
and Sackett’s views of Papen and Hugenberg:
Ibid., 283–284.

105
Marinus van der Lubbe:
Kershaw, 456–457.

105
“
a dupe of the Nazis”:
Shirer,
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
, 269.

105
“
For the Protection”:
Kershaw,
Hitler, 1889–1936: Hubris
, 459.

105
“
deeply displeased”:
Fromm, 79.

106
“
might deviate from”:
Shirer,
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
, 276.

106
“
The nation turned”:
Manuscript of article for
Public Ledger
, May 15, 1933, H. R. Knickerbocker Papers, Columbia.

106
“
It is really as bad”
and other quotes from letter to Lewis:
Sanders,
Dorothy Thompson
, 185.

106
“
perfectly mad”
and rest of letter to Cohen:
Kurth, 187.

107
“
the auto da fé”:
Manuscript of article for
Public Ledger
, May 15, 1933, H. R. Knickerbocker Papers, Columbia.

107
“
These flames do not only”
and authors of burned books:
Philip Metcalfe,
1933
, 123.

107
“
that the truth”:
Undated manuscript titled “Education Is Not Enough” in S. Miles Bouton Papers, box 1, Hoover.

107
“
change his style of reporting”:
Deborah E. Lipstadt,
Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933–1945
, 22.