"chests of deserving men"; trees blue: Fair, Berlin!, 121.
Berlin Secession: In addition to Paret, see Marion F. Deshmukh, "Art and Politics in Turn-of-the-Century Berlin. The Berlin Secession and Kaiser Wilhelm II," in Gerald Chappie and Hans H. Schulte, eds., The Turn of the Century: German Literature and Art, 1890–1915 (Bonn, 1981), 463–473.
"soul of the German nation"; "today’s classics": Quoted in Paret, Berlin Secession, 160, 156.
"infinite love"; "big city night": Quoted in Charles W. Haxthausen, "Images of Berlin in the Art of the Secession and Expressionism," in Kelly Morris and Amanda Woods, eds., Art in Berlin 1815–1989 (Atlanta, 1989), 68. On Meidner, see also Bilski, "Images of Identity," in Bilski, ed., Berlin Metropolis, 123–127.
"dehumanized world"; "what is seen": Ibid., 73–76.
"in Gothic countries": Brandes, Berlin als Reichshauptstadt, 45.
"most odious hostility": Quoted in Caroline Moorehead, Lost and Found: The 9,000 Treasures of Troy (New York, 1994), 197.
"all German citizens": Ibid., 199.
"von Moltke and myself": Quoted in David A. Traill, Schliemann of Troy. Treasure and Deceit (New York, 1995), 214.
treasure-house of ancient plunder: Suzanne L. Marchand, Down from Olympus. Archaeology and Philhellenism in Germany, 1750–1970 (Princeton, 1996), 188–189.
"of foreign origin"; "less prominent place": Quoted in Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 40.
Cézanne painting: Emily D. Bilski, "Introduction," in Bilski, ed., Berlin Metropolis, 3.
"not to him": Quoted in Paret, Berlin Secession, 161.
"raises my bile": Quoted in Masur, Imperial Berlin, 226.
quarantine or disinfecting: On Virchow, see Gerhard Hiltner, Rudolf Virchow (Stuttgart, 1970).
"with such institutions": Jules Huret, Berlin um Neunzehnhundert (Berlin, 1997), 247–248.
Paul Ehrlich: On Ehrlich, see Fritz Stern, Einstein’s German World (Princeton, 1999), 13–34.
"golden age of German physics": Quoted in ibid., 39.
Virchow versus Bismarck: Hiltner, Virchow, 43–46.
"political animal"; "Regiment of the Guards": Quoted in Masur, Imperial Berlin, 110, 99.
"as was its predecessor": Quoted in Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 59.
"new triumph of science": Quoted in Stern, Einstein’s German World, 38.
"obstacle to the exhibition": Quoted in Masur, Imperial Berlin, 126.
Industrial Exhibition of 1896: On this, see Jochen Boberg, Tilman Fichter, and Eckhart Gillen, Die Metropole. Industriekultur in Berlin im 20. Jahrhundert (Munich, 1896), 16–27.
urban transportation: On Berlin’s transportation system, see ibid., 31–51; and Hans Kollhoff, "The Metropolis as a Construction: Engineering Structures in Berlin, 1871–1914," in Josef Paul Kleihues and Christina Rathgeber, eds., Berlin/New York. Like and Unlike (New York, 1993), 47–58.
"by the evening sun": Quoted in Kollhoff, "The Metropolis," 52.
automobiles in Berlin: See Glatzer and Glatzer, eds., Berliner Leben 1900–1914, I, 125–128.
Zeppelins: see Peter Fritzsche, A Nation of Fliers. German Aviation and the Popular Imagination (Cambridge, Mass., 1992), 19–20.
"apparent impossibilities": Quoted in Glatzer and Glatzer, eds., Berliner Leben 1900–1914, II, 228.
"to get a better view": Ibid., 229.
"He is manoli": Bernt Engelmann, Berlin. Eine Stadt wie keine andere (Göttingen, 1991), 196.
"bringer of light"; "most important city": Quoted in Joachim Schlör, Nachts in der grossen Stadt. Paris, Berlin, London 1840 bis 1930 (Munich, 1994), 68–69.
Wildness und Weltstadt: Gottfried Korff and Reinhard Rürup, eds., Berlin, Berlin. Die Ausstellung zur Geschichte der Stadt (Berlin, 1987), 465.
"soaps and toothbrushes": Franz Hessel, Ein Flaneur in Berlin (Berlin, 1984), 32–33.
"elevated lifestyle": Quoted in Korff and Rump, eds., Berlin, Berlin, 466.
"city of show windows": Quoted in Peter Fritzsche, Reading Berlin 1900 (Cambridge, Mass., 1996), 154.
"fill the streets?"; "a bewildering mess": Quoted in ibid., 153, 172.
could pass up: Kiaulehn, Berlin, 222.
"glass-covered counters": Huret, Berlin um Neunzehnhundert, 59.
"elegance for all"; "with the little lady": Quoted in Kiaulehn, Berlin, 225.
day’s headlines: On Berlin’s newspapers, see ibid., 477–504; Fritzsche, Reading Berlin; and Peter de Mendelssohn, Zeitungsstadt Berlin (Berlin, 1982).
"the way it really is"; crossroads in Europe; "Catch Hennig": Fritzsche, Reading Berlin, 63–74, 160.
arranged a pardon: On the Voigt episode, see Wolfgang Heidelmayer, ed., Der Fall Köpenick (Frankfurt am Main, 1968); and the Carl Zuckmayer play, "Der Hauptmann von Köpenick."
"amounted to anything": Glatzer and Glatzer, eds., Berliner Leben 1900–1914, II, 613.
"don’t you think?": Quoted in Hedda Adlon, Hotel Adlon (Munich, 1993).
"half-museum, half-living room": Quoted in Korff and Rürup, Berlin, Berlin, 205.
"bespectacled men at their sides": Huret, Berlin um Neunzehnhundert, 62.
36 percent Russians: Korff and Rürup, Berlin, Berlin, 205.
"all over again": Huret, Berlin um Neunzehnhundert, 67.
"most enticing nights": Hans Ostwald, ed., Grossstadtdokumente, Band 30 (Berlin, n.d.), 15.
"almost completely disappeared"; "dominate the milieu": Quoted in Senior, Nachts, 107, 109.
Heinze case: See Richard Evans, "Prostitution, State and Society in Imperial Germany," Past and Present 70 (Feb. 1976), 119.
"down the street"; "fair game"; "have survived": Ostwald, Grossstadtdokumente, 17–19, 28.
Ringvereine: Read and Fisher, Berlin Rising, 175–176.
"rest of the world": Ostwald, Grossstadtdokumente, 23–24.
"houses and humanity": Magnus Hirschfeld, Berlin’s drittes Geschlecht (Berlin, 1991), 18.
"how they live"; "Amerika-Franzl"; "strong sympathy"; "indecent occurred": Ibid., 13, 21, 48, 52.
two thousand male prostitutes: See Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring. The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (Boston, 1989), 83.
Eulenbergcase: See Kiaulehn, Berlin, 514–516; Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 112–116; Isabel V. Hull, The Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II (New York, 1982), 105–145.
"cleared or stoned": Quoted in Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 115–116.
"in an iron grip": Quoted in Korff and Rürup, Berlin, Berlin, 333.
cases of emergency: G. A. Ritter and Jürgen Kocka, Deutsche Sozialgeschichte 1870–1914. Dokumente and Skizzen (Munich, 1982), 144–147.
"my work mechanically": Quoted in ibid., 152–153.
"paid for each piece": Quoted in Korff and Rürup, Berlin, Berlin, 335.
Home and Work Show: Ibid., 336.
unable to conceive children; "cradle of her child": Rosemary Orthmann, Out of Necessity. Women Working in Berlin at the Height of Industrialization (London and New York, 1991), 170–171.