"nothing but a broodhen": Quoted in Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 6–7.
"the day after": Georg Hermann, Kubinke (Gütersloh, 1967), 8–9. Quoted in Fritzsche, Reading Berlin, 117.
"needles sticking out": Quoted in Fritzsche, Reading Berlin, 119.
workers in imperial Germany: See Kiaulehn, 169–214; Eduard Bernstein, ed., Die Geschichte der Berliner Arbeiterbewegung (Berlin, 1924).
SPD electoral successes: Erbe, "Berlin im Kaiserreich," in Ribbe, ed., Geschichte Berlin’s, II, 770–775.
"exotic colorful bird": Elzbieta Etinger, Rosa Luxemburg (Boston, 1986), 76.
"be gunned down": Quoted in Jay Winter and Blaine Baggett, The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century (New York, 1996), 31.
"exclusive use of traffic": Quoted in Thomas Lindenberger, Strassenpolitik. Zur Sozialgeschichte der öffentlichen Ordnung in Berlin, 1900 bis 1914 (Bonn, 1995), 11.
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"become a world-empire": Quoted in Malcolm Carroll, Germany and the Great Powers (New York, 1975), 378.
"German impudence": Quoted in Friedrich Thimme, "Die Kruger Depesche," Europäische Gespräche, 1924, 213.
"unfortunate impression": Sir Sidney Lee, King Edward VII, 2 vols. (New York, 1925–27), I, 724–725.
"wants to fight": Quoted in J. C. G. Röhl, Germany without Bismarck (Berkeley, 1967), 166.
"jumpy" fellow: Quoted in Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 95.
gift of Frederick the Great statue: Nathan Miller, Theodore Roosevelt. A Life (New York, 1992), 389.
"failure in history": Quoted in Robert K. Massie, Dreadnought. Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War (New York, 1991), 106.
make a splash: For a comprehensive study of Anglo-German enmity, see Paul M. Kennedy, The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism (London, 1980).
"a little boy": Quoted in Lamar Cecil, "History as family chronicle: Kaiser Wilhelm II and the dynastic roots of the Anglo-German antagonism," in Röhl and Sombart, eds., Kaiser Wilhelm II, 105.
"to the Botokunden": Ibid., 107.
"compel that recognition": Quoted in Theodor Schiemann, Deutschland und die Grosse Politik, 2 vols. (Berlin, 1902–15), I, 11–12.
"future on the water": Quoted in Michael Balfour, The Kaiser and His Times (Boston, 1964), 206.
"butt-ends of [their] rifles": Alfred von Tirpitz, My Memoirs, 2 vols. (New York, 1970), I, 134.
Naval bills: See Eckart Kehr, Battleship Building and Party Politics in Germany, 1894–1901 (Chicago, 1973).
grounds of the Berlin Zoo: Korff and Rürup, eds., Berlin, Berlin, 292.
"aimed at us": Massie, Dreadnought, 601.
"mad as hatters": Norman Rich and M. H. Fisher, eds., Friedrich von Holstein. The Holstein Papers: The Memoirs, Diaries and Correspondence of Friedrich von Holstein, 4 vols. (New York, 1955), I, 207. See also Terence F. Cole, "The Daily Telegraph Affair and its Aftermath: the Kaiser, Bülow, and the Reichstag, 1908–1909," in Röhl and Sombart, eds., Kaiser Wilhelm II, 249–268.
"in a madhouse": Vierhaus, ed., Spitzemberg Tagebuch, 489.
"ruler of this people": Quoted in Cole, "The Daily Telegraph Affair," 263.
"Jewish press carnival": Quoted in Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 140.
"safeguarding constitutional responsibilities": Bernard, Fürst von Bülow, Memoirs of Prince von Bülow. 4 vols. (Boston, 1931), II, 423.
"I am neither"; "He can’t do it": Quoted in Konrad H. Jarausch, The Enigmatic Chancellor: Bethmann-Hollweg and the Hubris of Imperial Germany (New Haven, 1973), 66–70.
"work out fine": Quoted in Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 147.
firmly onto his string: Paul M. Kennedy, "The Kaiser and German Weltpolitik," in Röhl and Sombart, eds. Kaiser Wilhelm II, 155.
"extremely relieved"; "little popguns": Quoted in Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 154, 163.
"the German sword": Reichstag Verhandlungen, XII, Leg. Per. II, Session 7718 (Nov. 9, 1911). See also Bernadotte E. Schmitt, England and Germany, 1740–1914 (Princeton, 1916), 338.
"matter with the Hohenzollerns?": Quoted in Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 165.
"coffin of German prestige": National Zeitung, Nov. 5, 1911.
"a more fortunate result": Quoted in Gordon A. Craig, Germany 1866–1945, 330–331.
"I hate the Slavs": Quoted in Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 176.
"more precarious than ever": Alan Clark, ed., ‘A Good Innings.’ The Private Papers of Viscount Lee of Fareham (London, 1974), 121.
"whole thing off": Quoted in Read and Fisher, Berlin Rising, 156.
"heels of that rabble": Quoted in Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 168.
"remain at home": Theodor Wolff, Der Kreig des Pontius Pilatus (Zurich, 1934), 328.
"to my subjects"; "deadly serious hour": Quoted in Eksteins, Rites of Spring, 56–57.
"Long Live Social Democracy": Jeffrey Verhey, "The Spirit of 1914. The Myth of Enthusiasm and the Rhetoric of Unity in World War I," Ph.D. Dissertation, Berkeley, 1991, 141.
"still alive": Quoted in Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 205.
"cool decisiveness": Quoted in Peter Grupp, Harry Graf Kessler 1868–1937 (Munich, 1995), 163.
"reached its high point": Quoted in Eksteins, Rites of Spring, 60.
"German sword to victory": Quoted in Verhey, "Spirit of 1914," 32.
"demanded by duty": Quoted in Eksteins, Rites of Spring, 61.
prospect of war: James W. Gerard, My Four Years in Germany (New York, 1917), 133–134.
"dinner in St. Petersburg": Winter and Baggett, Great War, 59.
bacon at Waterloo: Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 208.
apologized profusely: Gerard, My Four Years, 138–139.
"such dangerous people"; "lost their senses": Quoted in Verhey, "Spirit of 1914," 179–180.
"willingness for sacrifice": Quoted in Stremmel, Modell, 55.
war games in the streets: Felix Gilbert, A European Past (New York, 1988), 28.
"son of my wife": Käthe Kollwitz, Briefe an den Sohn 1904 bis 1945 (Berlin, 1992), 96.
"show his patriotism": Quoted in Verhey, "Spirit of 1914," 203.
bursting with happy crowds: Ibid., 202.
"too high a price": Quoted in Hellmut von Gerlach, ed., Die grosse Zeit der Lüge: Der erste Weltkrieg und die deutsche Mentalität (1871–1921) (Bremen, 1994), 2. Belinda Davis’s new study, Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin (Chapel Hill, 2000) appeared too recently to be consulted for this book.
first two weeks of the war: Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert, Capital Cities at War. Paris, London, Berlin, 1914–1918 (Cambridge, 1997), 139.
other parts of the Reich: Ibid., 58–66; Ernst Kaeber, Berlin im Weltkriege. Fünf Jafire städtischer Kriegsarbeit (Berlin, 1921), 1–20.
"concentrated in Berlin?": Quoted in Stremmel, Modell, 98.
Rathenau: On Rathenau’s contribution, see Wolfgang Kruse, "Kriegswirtschaft und Gesellschaft-vision. Walther Rathenau und die Organisierung des Kapitalismus," in Hans Wilderotter, ed., Die Extreme berühren sich. Walther Rathenau 1867–1922 (Berlin, 1993), 151–168; Gerald D. Feldman, Army, Industry, and Labor in Germany (Princeton, 1966).