"exterminate, that’s all": Quoted in Joachim G. Fest, Hitler (New York, 1974), 392.
Reichstag fire: See Ulrich von Hehl, "Die Kontroverse um den Reichstagsbrand," Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 36. Jg. (1988), 259–280; Eckhard Jesse, "Der Reichstagsbrand—55 Jahre danach," Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 1988/4, 195–219; Martin Broszat, "Zum Streit um den Reichstagsbrand," Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 8. Jg. (1960), 275–279.
"God-given signal": Quoted in Sefton Delmer, Trail Sinister (London, 1961), 189.
"hell to pay"; "appointed by parliament": Quoted in Craig, Germany, 577, 578.
"society in the world": Quoted in Walter Leo, Die Steine reden noch (Berlin, 1987), 47.
"wobbly heads": Quoted in Bukert, Matußek, and Wippermann, Machtergreifung, 66.
"manual labor": Rumboldt to Foreign Office, May 3, 1933, PRO, FO 371, 16723/4091.
Köpenicker Blutwoche: Bukert, Matußek, and Wippermann, Machtergreifung, 67.
"the national revolution": Quoted in Kurt Schilde and Johannes Tuchel, Columbia-Haus. Berliner Konzentrationslager 1933–1936 (Berlin, 1990), 31–32.
"the work-ethic": Quoted in Bukert, Matußek, and Wippermann, Machtergreifung, 67.
"loyalty and iron solidarity": Quoted in Korff and Rürup, eds., Berlin, Berlin, 529.
until 1940: On Lippert, see his memoir, Julius Lippert, Im Strom derzeit, Erlebnisse und Eindrücke (Berlin, 1942).
"law, and church": Franz von Papen, Memoirs (London, 1952), 305–307.
Night of the Long Knives: On this, see Kershaw, Hitler, 512–522; Heinz Höhne, Mordsache Röhm. Hitler’s Durchbruch zur Alleinherrschaft, 1933–1934 (Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1984); Kurt Gossweiler, Die Rühm-Affäre (Cologne, 1983); David Clay Large, Between Two Fires. Europe’s Path in the 1930s (New York, 1990), 101–137.
"have happened here": William E. Dodd, Jr., Ambassador Dodd’s Diary, 1933–1938 (New York, 1941), 118.
"streets of Berlin": Ibid., 127.
"animals I hope": Ivone Kirkpatrick, The Inner Circle (London, 1959), 90.
"enemies of the state": Max Domarus, ed., Reden und Proklamationen 1932–1945/Hitler, 2 vols. (Wiesbaden, 1973), I, 421.
"not be soft": Quoted in Andreas Dorpalen, Hindenburg andthe Weimar Republic (Princeton, 1964), 480.
"young National Socialist movement": Quoted in Fest, Hitler, 475.
"looked in their uniforms": Isherwood, Christopher and His Kind, 124.
"social deviants": On the Nazi persecution of homosexuals, see Burkhard Jellonnek, Homosexuelle unter dem Hakenkreuz. Die Verfolgung von Homosexuellen im Dritten Reich (Paderborn, 1990).
"be responsible?": Isherwood, Christopher and His Kind, 122.
close-to-the-soil values: See Stremmel, Modell, 232–241.
"Mecca or Rome": Quoted in Bergmann, Agrarromantik, 357.
"always liked Berlin"; "today’s resources": Werner Jochmann, ed., Monologe im Führer Hauptquartier 1941–1944/Adolf Hitler (Hamburg, 1980), 100–101.
a major purge: On the Nazi campaign against Berlin’s free press, see Engeli and Ribbe, "Berlin in der NS-Zeit," 940–942; De Mendelssohn, Zeitungsstadt Berlin, 324–422.
"unser Unglück": Engeli and Ribbe, "Berlin in der NS-Zeit," 941.
reverse this decision: John V. H. Dippel, Bound Upon a Wheel of Fire (New York, 1996), 132.
"last a generation"; "tightrope walking": Quoted in Deak, Weimar Germany’s Left-wing Intellectuals, 214–215.
reading the Jewish press: Dippel, Bound, 88–89, 127–128.
direct Nazi controclass="underline" Engeli and Ribbe, "Berlin in der NS-Zeit," 942.
Berlin-on-the-Pacific: See Lawrence Weschler, "Paradise: The Southern California Exile of Hitler’s Cultural Exiles," in Stephanie Barron, ed., Exiles and Émigrés. The Flight of European Artists from Hitler (Los Angeles, 1997), 341–357; Salka Viertel, The Kindness of Strangers (New York, 1969); Anthony Heilbut, Exiled in Paradise. German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America from the 1930s to the Present (New York, 1983).
"literary subversion": On the book burnings, see Hermann Haarmann, Walter Huder, Klaus Siebenhaar, ‘Das war ein Vorspiel nur’. . . Bücherverbrennung in Deutschland 1933: Voraussetzungen und Folgen (Berlin, 1983); Hans-Wolfgang Strätz, "Die studentische ‘Aktion wider den undeutschen Geist’ im Frühjahr 1933," Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 16. Jg. (1968), 347–372.
"Jewish hyper-intellectualism": Quoted in Haarmann, Huder, and Siebenhaar, "Vorspiel," 46.
Reichskulturkammer: For a study of this institution, see Alan E. Steinweis, Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany. The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts (Chapel Hill, 1993).
"inner emigration": Taylor, Berlin’s Culture, 269–272.
Hans Fallada: On Fallada, see Klaus Farin, Hans Fallada ‘Welche sind, die haben kein Glück’ (Berlin, 1993); Reinhard K. Zachau, Hans Fallada als politischer Schriftsteller (New York, Bern, 1990).
"un-German" imagery: On Benn, see Werner Rübe, Provoziertes Leben. Gottfried Benn (Stuttgart, 1993).
Jünger and Nazis: see Thomas Nevin, Ernst Jünger and Germany. Into the Abyss, 1914–1945 (Durham, 1996), 75–133.
"humble Party member": Quoted in Taylor, Berlin’s Culture, 267.
"transitory wealth": Mann, Turning Point, 281–282.
too gloomy: Taylor, Berlin’s Culture, 267.
"will be back": Quoted in Hans Bunge, "Brecht im zweiten Weltkriege," Neue deutsche Literatur X (1962), No. 3, 37.
girlie shows: Jelavich, Berlin Cabaret, 240.
"of the cinematic art": Quoted in Reuth, Goebbels, 195.
"as the primary school": Quoted in Taylor, Berlin’s Culture, 267.
47 percent of the directors: McGilligan, Fritz Lang, 175.
"without brain": Billy Wilder, Der Prinz von Wales geht auf Urlaub (Berlin, 1996), 23.
"crazy nightlife of the bars": Quoted in Kevin Lally, Wilder Times. The Life of Billy Wilder (New York, 1996), 19.
"even without Hitler": Quoted in ibid., 59.
"who understands us": Quoted in Reuth, Goebbels, 194.
doctor’s casting couch: Geza von Cziffra, Es war eine rauschende Ballnacht: Eine Sittengeschichte des deutschen Films (Frankfurt, 1987), 141–143. 665
pure entertainment pictures: Bärbel Dalichow and Axel Geiss, eds., Filmstadt Babelsberg (Berlin, 1994), 47.
"aspects of the German cinema"; "without falsifying them": Riefenstahl, Memoir, 137, 160.
"a healthy one": Quoted Taylor, Berlin and its Culture, 275.
Academy of Arts expulsions: Hildegard Brenner, Ende einer bürgerlichen Kunst-Institution. Die politische Formierung der Preussischen Adakemie der Künste ab 1933 (Stuttgart, 1972), 23–26.
"like Köllwitz paints her": Quoted in Catherine Krahmer, ed., Käthe Kollwitz (Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1981), 113.
in his private residence: Jonathan Petropoulos, Art as Politics in the Third Reich (Chapel Hill, 1996), 25.