Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power (61 page)

179
“
Once you look”
and description of Goebbels reception:
Louis Lochner,
What About Germany?
, 120–121.

179
“
extremely pleasant, handsome”:
Martha Dodd, 49.

179
“
blond Aryan”:
Ibid., 50.

179
“
most violent”
and “
the tall boy”:
Ibid., 42.

180
“
She just liked sleeping”:
Katrina Vanden Heuvel, “Grand Illusions,”
Vanity Fair
, Sept. 1991.

180
“
at least twelve”
and rest of Martha’s early account of Diels:
Martha Dodd, 51–56, 134–139.

180
“
I was intrigued”:
Ibid., 53.

180
“
a pathetic”:
Ibid., 134.

180
“
Martha, you are”
and “
I was extremely”:
Ibid., 136.

180
He wanted:
Dodd and Dodd, eds., 65; and Martha Dodd, 138.

181
“
a nervous state”:
Martha Dodd, 54.

181
“
a frightened rabbit”:
Ibid., 135.

181
He was a tall, blond
and Vinogradov at Die Taverne:
Shareen Blair Brysac,
Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra
, 155–156.

182
“
they had no future”
along with Mildred Harnack biographical details:
Ibid., 99.

182
“
It is said by”:
Ibid., 113.

182
“
hopefulness and achievement”:
Ibid., 119.

182
“
the scene of”:
Ibid., 99.

182
“
amazed at”:
Martha Dodd, 99.

182
On May 27, 1934:
Brysac, 149.

183
“
He was isolated”:
Martha Dodd, 84.

183
“
He is not happy”:
Brysac, 150.

183
“
I had had enough”
and rest of Martha Dodd’s account and quotes about Russia:
Martha Dodd, 169–208.

184
“
for the last two weeks”
and Wolfe’s arrival in Berlin:
A. Scott Berg,
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
, 270.

184
“
Tom, a huge man”
and rest of Dodd’s account of Wolfe:
Martha Dodd, 90–95.

184
“
I feel myself”:
Berg, 271.

184
“
Part of Tom’s”:
Martha Dodd, 91.

185
“
like a butterfly”:
Brysac, 179.

185
“
disturbing things”:
Berg, 270.

185
“
If there were”:
Aldo P. Magi and Richard Walser, eds.,
Thomas Wolfe Interviewed, 1929–1938
, 67.

185
“
a much soberer person”:
Martha Dodd, 94.

185
I Have a Thing to Tell You
excerpts:
C. Hugh Holman, ed.,
The Short Novels of Thomas Wolfe.

187
“
I came away”:
Magi and Walser, eds., 88.

CHAPTER EIGHT
: “
A MAD HATTER
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S LUNCHEON PARTY
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188
“
the season of”
and other quotes:
Thomas Wolfe,
You Can’t Go Home Again
, 484–486.

188
“
Jews, Frenchmen”:
David Clay Large,
Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936
, 43.

188
“
plot of Freemasons and Jews”:
Ibid., 49.

189
“
a disgrace and”:
Ibid., 58.

189
“
For us National Socialists”:
Ibid, 61.

189
Theodor Lewald
background:
Susan D. Bachrach,
The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936
, 13.

189
“
enormous propaganda”
and rest of Lewald pitch:
Large, 63.

189
“
My personal”:
Bachrach, 45–47.

189
“
competitors of all”:
Large, 71.

190
“
no discrimination”
and other details of Brundage visit:
Ibid., 79.

190
“
the token Negro”
and rest of Sherrill account:
Ibid., 84–85.

190
“
flagrant discrimination”
and rest of Dodd’s account:
Ibid., 97.

191
“
this will be”
and rest of Messersmith, Geist accounts:
Ibid., 94–96.

191
“
A consummate”:
Ibid., 98.

191
The daily spectacle:
Wolfe, 485.

192
“
At last he came”:
Ibid., 486.

192
“
Berlin is now”:
Large, 187.

192
“
Everything was free”:
Rudi Josten interviewed by Peter Gehrig, Dec. 4, 2004, and Mar. 23, 2005, Oral History Collection, Associated Press Corporate Archives.

192
The Nazis even allowed:
Large, 186.

192
“
A glittering swirl”:
Fromm, 226.

192
“
I’m afraid the Nazis”:
Shirer,
Berlin Diary
, 65.

192
Carla de Vries:
Large, 225.

192
Swimmer Eleanor Holm Jarrett:
Ibid., 180.

193
“
an orgasmic”
and “
It was unfair”:
Fromm, 225.

193
“
a war whoop”
and “
Hitler twisted”:
Martha Dodd, 212.

193
“
Negroes should not”:
Bachrach, 96.

193
Cheers went up
and invitations to black athletes:
Ibid., 95.

193
“
Jesse Owens ran”:
Oliver Lubrich, ed.,
Travels in the Reich, 1933–1945: Foreign Authors Report from Germany
, 138.

194
“
Owens was a quiet”:
Helms,
A Look over My Shoulder
, 26.

194
“
I have been treated”
and rest of DuBois account:
Lubrich, ed., 142–143.

195
“
Wearing gray flannel”:
Fromm, 225–226.

195
“
When Huber presented”
and rest of Morris story:
Leni Riefenstahl,
Leni Riefen-stahl: A Memoir
, 196–198.

196
“
his sad fate”:
Ibid., 200.

196
At an official function
and Hitler-Smith exchange:
Robert Hessen, ed.,
Berlin Alert
, 47.

196
“
Berlin was so familiar”
and other Katharine Smith quotes throughout:
Katharine Alling Hollister Smith, “My Life: Berlin August 1935–April 1939,” Truman Smith Papers, boxes 4 and 16, Hoover.

197
“
Your past relationship”:
Hessen, ed., 27.

199
Kätchen, who was:
Kätchen Coley interviewed by author (2010).

199
“
of air corps”:
Hessen, ed., 78.

199
“
their wits alone”:
Ibid., 83.

199
“
How fast can you”:
Katharine Smith’s unpublished memoir.

200
Two months later
and origins of proposal to Lindbergh:
Hessen, ed., 87–88.

200
“
I need hardly tell you”:
Ibid., 89.

200
“
extremely interested”:
Ibid., 91.

201
“
Colonel Smith is”
and other diary quotes:
Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
The Flower and the Nettle: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1936–1939
, 72–76.

202
“
We, who are in aviation”:
Hessen, ed., 95.

202
“
But no more speeches”:
Katharine Smith’s unpublished memoir.

202
“
Goering showed many facets”:
Hessen, ed., 101.

202
“
blazoned in”:
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 85.

203
“
I find that to laugh”
and description of lion encounter:
Katharine Smith’s unpublished manuscript, except where Anne is quoted.

203
“
I see and say nothing”:
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 86.

203
When Goering’s lion:
Kätchen Coley interviewed by author (2010).

204
“
Smith, there are”:
Hessen, ed., 102.

204
At Rostock:
Ibid., 96–97.

204
“
we have nothing”
and “
a spirit”:
A. Scott Berg,
Lindbergh
, 357.

204
“
obtain technical parity”:
Truman Smith, “An American Estimate of the German Air Force” (Nov. 1, 1937),
Airpower Historian
, April 1963, in Truman Smith Papers, box 9, Hoover.

205
“
German aviation”
and “
the best promotion”:
Fromm, 224.

205
“
How well and how”:
Albert C. Wedemeyer Papers, box 61, folder 19, Hoover.

205
“
I have had”
and rest of August 5 letter:
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 87.

206
“
While I still have”:
Berg, 361.

206
“
he is undoubtedly”:
Ibid.

206
The event that would cement
and Truman Smith’s description, along with Wilson’s letter to Lindbergh:
Hessen, ed., 132–133.

207
“
a victory by”:
Berg, 382.

207
“
Hitler’s realistic”
and misjudgments about military disaffection:
Truman Smith, “Party and Army: Germany–November 1937,” Truman Smith Papers, box 2, Hoover.

207
“
I was astonished”:
Original manuscript of Smith’s
The Facts of Life
, 104, Truman Smith Papers, box 2, Hoover.

208
“
I could feel”:
Hanfstaengl,
Hitler
, 129.

208
“
No!”
and other quotes from Hanfstaengl:
interviewed by Toland, Library of Congress.

208
“
It would be reasonable”:
Hanfstaengl, 170.

208
“
one of my most bitter”:
Wiegand memo, Karl von Wiegand Papers, box 30, Hoover.

209
“
probably likes to”:
Ibid., box 14, Hoover.

209
“
an immense, high-strung”:
Shirer,
Berlin Diary
, 17.

209
“
I wonder why”
and rest of Hanfstaengl-Fromm exchange:
Fromm, 163.

210
“
no discourtesy of any kind”
and rest of this description of Hanfstaengl arrival controversy:
“Reunion: Hanfstaengl’s Arrival Greeted by 3,000 Students,”
Newsweek
, June 23, 1934.

210
Benjamin Halpern
letter and
Crimson
editorial:
Conradi,
Hitler’s Piano Player
, 145.