female work-force: Winter and Robert, Capital Cities, 188.
motormen: Gerard, My Four Years, 407; see also Kaeber, Berlin im Weltkriege, 2.
"socialist principles": Quoted in Feldman, Army, 104.
"orgy of interest politics": Ibid., 150.
"during the entire war": Adlon, Hotel Adlon, 81.
"bread was unpalatable": Gilbert, European Past, 32.
profit for themselves: "Marmelade statt Butter?" Berlin Lokal-Anzeiger, Oct. 19, 1919.
"their hollow breasts": Quoted in Dieter Glatzer and Ruth Glatzer, eds., Berliner Leben 1914–1918. Eine historische Reportage aus Erinnerungen und Berichten (Berlin, 1983), 265.
"next meal will be": Evelyn Blucher von Wahlstatt, An English Wife in Berlin (New York, 1920), 158.
"picking them clean": Quoted in Stremmel, Modell, 95.
"eating shit for dessert": Quoted in Robert Scholz, "Ein unruhiges Jahrzehnt: Lebensmittelunruhen, Massenstreiks und Arbeitslosen-Krawalle in Berlin 1914–1923," in Manfred Gallus, ed., Pöbelexzesse und Volkstumulte in Berlin. Zur Sozialgeschichte der Strasse (1830–1980) (Berlin, 1984), 83.
"discourse in Berlin": Ibid., 85.
"these difficult times": Ibid., 87.
"Truly a Weltstadt": Quoted in Stremmel, Modell, 235. See also A. Joachimsthaler, Korrektur einer Biographie. Adolf Hitler 1908–1920 (Munich, 1989), 170–171.
"mistakes and dark sides": Stremmel, Modell, 235.
"fields of grain": Harnack quoted in Gerard, My Four Years, 147–148.
"Manifesto of the Ninety-three": See Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg and Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg, Der Aufruf ‘An der Kulturwelt!’ (Stuttgart, 1996), 72–73.
"Manhattan Project": Fritz Stern, Dreams and Delusions (New York, 1987), 65.
"then, however, regularly": Quoted in ibid., 63.
"live in Berlin": Quoted in Ronald W. Clark, Einstein. The Life and Times (New York, 1971), 168.
"speak out for peace"; "cessation of hostilities": Ibid., 181; also Stern, Einstein’s German World, 115–118.
"one excitement to another": Berlin Börsen-Courier, Dec. 9, 1915. Quoted in Jelavich, Berlin Cabaret, 119.
"darling, darling army": Quoted in Helga Bemmann, Claire Waldoff (Frankfurt am Main, 1994), 97.
"one enemy alone": Quoted in Jelavich, Berlin Cabaret, 119.
"lead in fashion questions": Quoted in Verhey, "Spirit of 1914," 120.
"of their fellow citizens": Jelavich, Berlin Cabaret, 121.
"Frau General": Quoted in Bemmann, Claire Waldoff, 100–101.
"whores and champagne"; "unpatriotic bastards"; in the trenches: Quoted in Jelavich, Berlin Cabaret, 124.
"existence with impunity": Quoted in Paret, Berlin Secession, 235.
"Roman Eagle"; Iron Cross: Ibid., 238, 240–243.
"banality in life": Robert Hughes, Nothing If Not Critical (New York, 1990), 167.
"Courbet of the cannibals": Ibid., 168.
"sign of their fate": Quoted in Clark V. Poling, "The City and Modernity: Art in Berlin in the First World War and Its Aftermath," in Morris and Woods, eds. Art in Berlin 1815–1989, 84.
"arrived there": George Grosz, An Autobiography (New York, 1983), 94.
cretinous thugs: Beth Irwin Lewis, George Grosz. Art and Politics in the Weimar Republic, rev. ed. (Princeton, 1991), 21–23.
"side by side": Grosz, Autobiography, 102.
"smells of shit": Quoted in Frank Whitford, "The Many Faces of George Grosz," in The Berlin of George Grosz. Drawings, Watercolours and Prints 1912–1930. Royal Academy of Arts, London (New Haven, 1997), 7.
Widmung an Oskar Panizza: Ibid.
"war Dada da"; "aimless of the world unite": Quoted in Eksteins, Rites of Spring, 210.
"Art is shit": Quoted in Lewis, George Grosz, 57.
"by a long shot": Karl Riha, ed., Dada Berlin. Texte, Manifeste, Aktionen (Stuttgart, 1977), 17.
distribution of resources: Ingo Materna and Jans-Joachim Schreckenbach, eds., Dokumente aus geheimen Archiven. Band 4, 1914–1918. Berichte des Berliner Polizeipräsidenten zur Stimmung und Lage der Bewölkerung in Berlin 1914–1918 (Weimar, 1987), 166–167.
"we want turnips"; "influence as here": Quoted in Scholz, "Unruhiges Jahrzehnt," 93.
to a rapid end; "fateful" development: Materna and Schreckenbach, Dokumente, 172, 208–209.
"the Russian revolution": Quoted in J. P. Nettl, Rosa Luxemburg (Oxford, 1969), 420.
the strike leaders: Materna and Schreckenbach, Dokumente, 193.
"during the war": Quoted in Robert Asprey, The German High Command at War (New York, 1991), 331.
for generous donations: Gilbert, European Past, 31.
"stage powerful demonstrations"; "with the authorities": Materna and Schreckenbach, Dokumente, 234–235, 239.
control over the masses: Feldman, Army, 449.
"come this summer": Materna and Schreckenbach, Dokumente, 271.
"to dark pessimism": Quoted in Asprey, High Command, 402.
at the latest: Materna and Schreckenbach, Dokumente, 279.
"anything less than hopeful": Blücher, English Wife, 245.
going to happen: Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 273.
"have served us": Quoted in Winter and Baggett, Great War, 307.
"representatives of the German people": Quoted in Cecil, Wilhelm II, II, 283.
push him from power; in attendance: Ibid., 288, 353–354.
"to the capital"; "schoolboys": Harry Kessler, In the Twenties. The Diaries of Harry Kessler (New York, 1971), 5, 7.
"tasteless way of the times": Blucher, English Wife, 294.
"great German Republic": Philipp Scheidemann, Memoiren. 2 volumes (Dresden, 1928), II, 310–314.
Chapter 4
"kinds of debauchery!": Klaus Mann, The Turning Point (New York, 1984), 86.
"crisis in modern civilization": Stephen Spender, "Life Wasn’t a Cabaret," New York Times Magazine, Oct. 30, 1979, 24.
"Hauptstadt of vice": Quoted in John J. White, "Sexual Mecca, Nazi Metropolis, City of Doom: The Pattern of English, Irish and American Reactions to the Berlin of the Interwar Years," in Derek Glass, Dietmar Rösler, and John J. White, eds., Berlin. Literary Images of A City. Eine Grossstadt im Spiegel der Literatur (Berlin, 1989), 183.
"puppies [were] virgins": Stephen Spender, The Temple (London, 1988), 185.
"seemed to be trump": W. E. Süskind, "Raymund," Neue Rundschau, I (1927), 374. Quoted in Gerald D. Feldman, The Great Disorder. Politics, Economics, and Society in the German Inflation 1914–1924 (New York, 1993), 3.
"available was bad": Quoted in Scholz, "Unruhiges Jahrzehnt," 99.
"our power": Quoted in Henning Köhler, "Berlin in der Weimarer Republik," in Ribbe, ed., Geschichte Berlin’s, II, 806.