Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power (64 page)

295
“
nervous breakdown”
and other Katharine Smith quotes about Chandler:
Katharine Smith’s memoir in Truman Smith Papers, boxes 4 and 16, Hoover.

295
“
ponytails and dirndls”:
Kätchen Coley interviewed by author.

295
Delaney, Kaltenbach and Chandler
along with details of their fates:
Bergmeier and Lotz, 45–64.

296
“
a beginner”
and details of Mildred’s applications:
Brysac,
Resisting Hitler
, 258.

296
One of Mildred’s jobs
and Mildred’s reported role in escapes:
Ibid., 245. Also Anne Nelson,
Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler
, 163–164.

296
Her husband Arvid
and relationship with Heath:
Ibid., 224–227.

296
“
a German patriot”:
Ibid., 266. A similar argument is made by Anne Nelson in
Red Orchestra.

297
“
Harnack never”:
Ibid., 264.

297
But Brysac documented
and rest of Korotkov-Harnack story, including Korotkov quote and Harnack’s first intelligence report:
Ibid., 261–267.

297
They also weren’t helped:
Ibid., 307.

297
In late August
and estimate of arrests:
Ibid., 329.

297
“
loss of honor”
and other verdicts:
Ibid., 359; rest of Mildred’s story, 359–379.

298
“
And I have loved”:
Ibid., 379.

298
“
When a new number”
and account of Lovell’s activities, including dinner with military attachés:
Harsch,
At the Hinge of History
, 54–55.

299
“
Just imagine”
and rest of Schultz-Boehmer exchange:
Schultz, 162–163.

299
“
the best immediate defense”
and fireside chat:
Jonas, 248.

300
“
the severest bombing yet”
and rest of Shirer’s account of bombing on September 10:
Shirer,
Berlin Diary
, 503–504.

301
“
Night Crime”
and other headline:
Ibid., 509.

301
“
Except for”:
Flannery, 151.

301
“
But after the Russian campaign”
and “
No, I just had bad news”
and depression:
Ibid., 378–380.

302
“Mein Gott” and “
I thought I was gone”:
Ibid., 384–385.

302
“
I love my wife”
and exchange with woman plastic surgeon:
Schultz, 138–139.

302
Angus Thuermer
and story of third floor apartment and Jewish visitor:
Angus Thuermer interviewed by author.

303
Howard K. Smith
and Heppler episode:
Howard K. Smith, 184–187.

304
“
The increasingly desperate”:
Kennan, 106.

304
“
Time proved him”:
Beam, unpublished manuscript.

304
Aside from taking on:
Kennan, 106. (Kennan estimated that the U.S. represented the interests of eleven countries by the time of Pearl Harbor.)

304
“
I felt that”:
Harsch,
At the Hinge of History
, 56.

305
“
you must never”:
Huss, 214.

305
“
the hottest game”
and “
Everything else”:
Ibid., ix–x.

305
“
Many times I heard her say”:
Harsch,
At the Hinge of History
, 55.

305
“
knew everything”:
Howard K. Smith, 226.

306
“
on suspicion of espionage”
and rest of Hottelet’s account:
Richard C. Hottelet, “Guest of Gestapo,”
San Francisco Chronicle
, Aug. 3, 1941; Hottelet interviewed by author.

306
“
Had he been”
and other Smith comments about Hottelet:
Howard K. Smith, 226–227.

306
Beam, who:
Beam, unpublished manuscript.

307
“
Your situation is”:
Howard K. Smith, 346.

307
“
Czech patriots”:
Ibid., 348.

307
“
utterly vapid”:
Ibid., 349.

307
Like other American reporters:
Ibid., 344.

308
“
We who have been”
and on German character:
Shirer,
Berlin Diary
, 584–585.

309
“
I am firmly convinced”:
Ibid., 591–592.

309
“
The question before”
and “
The alternative”:
Harsch,
Pattern of Conquest
, 303–304.

309
Huss interviewed Hitler
with quotes and description:
Huss, 279–300.

CHAPTER TWELVE: THE LAST ACT

PAGE

311
“The similarities”
and rest of descriptions and quotes on December 7 and immediate aftermath:
Kennan,
Memoirs
, 134–135.

311
It was a titanic struggle
and statistics on battle for Moscow:
Andrew Nagorski,
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II
, 2.

312
“
General Mud and General Cold”:
Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova, eds.,
A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941–1945
, 223.

312
Germany an economic powerhouse:
Kershaw,
Hitler, 1936–1945: Nemesis
, 434.

313
“
We can’t lose”:
Ibid., 442.

313
“
We are all”:
Winston S. Churchill,
The Grand Alliance
, 605.

313
“
To me the best tidings”:
Richard M. Langworth, ed.,
Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations
, 132.

313
The sudden rash of:
Charles B. Burdick,
An American Island in Hitler’s Reich: The Bad Nauheim Internment
, 9.

313
only fifteen, less than a third:
See Howard K. Smith, 344, for original number of about fifty.

314
“
enemy aliens”:
For a description of one of these cases, see
HistoryLink.org
Essay 8654.

314
“
will be done”
and rest of Lochner account of press conference, including Schmidt quote:
Lochner,
What About Germany?,
360–361.

314
bye-bye
and rest of Thuermer account:
Thuermer, unpublished manuscript, and interview with author.

315
Friends kept dropping by
and account of Lochner’s arrest:
Lochner,
What About Germany?
, 363–364.

316
“
We still have”
and “
The Gestapo”
and breakfast:
Ibid., 364–366.

316
At the embassy
and scene with von Ribbentrop:
Kennan, 135–136.

316
“
entire satanic insidiousness”:
Kershaw, 446.

316
cheering news:
Lochner,
What About Germany?
, 366–367.

317
Hitler had ordered:
Kennan, 136.

317
Returning to their homes:
Burdick, 28.

317
132 Americans:
Louis Lochner, “Americans Fed Better Than Germans, But Still Lose Weight,” AP dispatch published in the
Frederick Post
, May 20, 1942, Associated Press Corporate Archives.

317
It had been closed:
Burdick, 37.

317
In January and February:
Lochner,
What About Germany?,
369.

318
“
This showed us”:
Lochner, AP dispatch, May 20, 1942.

318
To deal with the constant problems
and
Patzak also allowed:
Burdick, 47.

319
“
It is in the general interest”:
Ibid., 46.

319
“
a rather unique”:
Lochner,
What About Germany?,
369.

319
The AP’s Ed Shanke:
Ibid., 370–371; and Burdick, 48.

319
Alvin Steinkopf:
Burdick, 51, 57.

319
“
Badheim University”
and “
Education of the ignorant”:
Burdick, 62–63. Other details about activities from Thuermer, unpublished manuscript, and Thuermer interviewed by author.

320
Kennan won permission
and other baseball details:
Burdick, 85; also Thuermer, unpublished manuscript, and interview.

320
“
for disciplinary control”:
Kennan, 136.

320
British bombers:
Burdick, 96.

321
“
to keep the more”
and breakfast story at the border:
Kennan, 137–138.

321
“
We had not”:
Ibid., 139.

321
“
The department”:
Ibid., 139–140.

322
Drottningholm:
Burdick, 106.

AFTERWORD

PAGE

326
“
She continued to serve”:
Helms, 20.

326
“
of my Harvard Club friend”:
Hanfstaengl, 293.

326
Arriving in Washington:
Ibid., 294.

326
“
most of the time”:
Eric Hanfstaengl interviewed by author (2009).

326
“
still in his bones”:
Marwell, 517.

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ARCHIVAL SOURCES

Associated Press Corporate Archives, New York, NY

Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY

Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, CA

Leo Baeck Institute Archives, New York, NY

Library of Congress, Washington, DC

National Archives, College Park, MD

Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries Archival Collections, New York, NY

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Jacob Beam, unpublished manuscript (with no title page), courtesy of Alex Beam.

David Marwell, “Unwonted Exile: A Biography of Ernst ‘Putzi’ Hanfstaengl,” Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1988.

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