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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

S LUNCHEON PARTY

PAGE

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.

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