Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power (62 page)

210
“
There you are”:
Hanfstaengl, 223.

211
“
I see America”:
Ibid., 222.

211
“
It was really like”:
Ibid., 250.

211
“
the demon”:
Ibid., 213.

211
“
Putz hastily”:
Katharine Smith’s unpublished memoir.

212
“
to play that”:
Hanfstaengl, 265.

212
“
Yes, he was extraordinary”
and rest of Helen’s account:
Niemeyer tape, Toland Collection, Library of Congress.

213
Putzi began smuggling
and claims about helping others:
Hanfstaengl, 274.

213
According to Putzi’s
and subsequent events of purported plot against him:
Ibid., 276–284.

214
“
a harmless joke”:
Conradi, 209.

214
“
an elaborate hoax”:
David George Marwell, “Unwonted Exile: A Biography of Ernst ‘Putzi’ Hanfstaengl,” Ph.D. dissertation, 13; and Marwell interviewed by author (2011).

214
Back in Berlin
and rest of Lochner’s account of tracking down Hanfstaengl:
Lochner,
Always the Unexpected
, 184–186.

215
“
I certainly would not”:
Dodd and Dodd, eds.,
Ambassador Dodd’s Diary
, 119.

215
“
What in the world is the use”:
Dallek,
Democrat and Diplomat
, 271.

216
“
telegram deficiency”:
Ibid., 272–273.

216
“
a historian of”
and other Smith quotes:
Hessen, ed., 79.

216
“
I have seldom”:
Katharine Smith’s unpublished memoir.

217
“
four years’ service”:
Dallek, 295.

217
“
In Berlin once more”:
Dodd and Dodd, eds.,
Ambassador Dodd’s Diary
, 430.

217
“
There were and are still”:
Ibid., 445.

217
“
Hitler intends to”:
Dallek, 332.

217
“
The Russians of”:
Martha Dodd, 343.

218
“
Martha argues that”:
Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev,
The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—the Stalin Era
, 52.

218
“
frankly expressed”:
Ibid., 53.

218
“
we have agreed”
and subsequent encounter with Slutsky, and Martha’s statement:
Ibid., 55–56.

219
“
Boris, dear!”:
Ibid., 61.

CHAPTER NINE
: “
UNIFORMS AND GUNS
”

PAGE

220
“
whether it was”
and other quotes from Smith:
Howard K. Smith,
Last Train from Berlin
, 4–16.

222
Like many wealthy undergraduates
and quotes from JFK’s diary:
Lubrich, ed.,
Travels in the Reich
, 159–161.

223
“
The trip up the Rhine”
and rest of diary entries along with letter from German engineer to Randolph:
Rebecca McBride, “Europe 1938: Travel Diary of John F. Randolph Annotated by His Daughter,” Leo Baeck Institute Archives.

224
“
I simply draped”:
Howard K. Smith, 26–27.

225
“
Murrow, Columbia Broadcasting”
and Shirer about Murrow:
Shirer,
Berlin Diary
, 79–80.

226
“
Personally, they have not”
and other reflections on Berlin experiences:
Ibid., 83–87.

226
“
The worst has happened”:
Ibid., 95.

227
“
plays nicely”:
Ibid., 90.

227
“
a shouting, hysterical”:
Ibid., 97.

227
“
What’s that”:
Ibid., 100.

227
“
Well
, meine Damen” and rest of café scene:
Ibid., 101.

227
“
Where did”
and flights:
Ibid., 103.

228
“
This morning when”:
William L. Shirer, “
This Is Berlin”: Radio Broadcasts from Nazi Germany
, 14.

228
“
entanglements”
and Hoover visit to Germany:
Gary Dean Best,
Herbert Hoover: The Postpresidential Years, 1933–1964
, Vol. I,
1933–1945
, 103.

228
“
that Hitler was”
and other Arentz quotes:
Oral history interview of Samuel S. Arentz by Raymond Henle, Oct. 5, 1966, Herbert Hoover Oral History Program, box 2, Hoover. Additional details on Hoover-Hitler meeting, from Richard Norton Smith,
An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover
, 253–256.

229
Greeted by:
Richard Norton Smith, 255–256.

229
“
Yes, that’s”
and discussion of Russia:
Arentz interviewed by Henle.

229
“
many menaces”:
Best, 103.

229
“
have all the hideous”:
Ibid., 104.

230
“
a longer period”
and other Jacob Beam quotes:
Jacob Beam’s unpublished manuscript with no title page (courtesy of Alex Beam).

231
The daughter of
and rest of background of Muriel White:
“American Countess Menaced with Bomb,”
New York Times
, Jan. 16, 1911.

231
“
Foreign women”
and American Women’s Club:
Sigrid Schultz,
Germany Will Try It Again
, 137.

231
“
commanded a hysterical”:
Ibid., 135–136.

232
“
the great improvement”
and other Dilling quotes about Nazi Germany:
Glen Jeansonne,
Women of the Far Right: The Mothers’ Movement and World War II
, 13.

232
Schultz recalled seeing Dilling
and exchange with young American woman and Hoffmann quote:
Schultz, 136.

236
“
the principal impression”
and other quotes from March 3, 1938, letter:
Hugh R. Wilson, Jr.,
A Career Diplomat, The Third Chapter: The Third Reich
, 18–21.

236
“
in the sense of”:
Ibid., 21–22.

236
“
One may judge”:
Ibid., 63.

237
“
the smoke and dust”
and rest of letter to Hull:
Ibid., 22–26.

237
“
confess that their hearts”:
Ibid., 26.

237
“
of bringing our people”
and Wilson’s response:
Ibid., 28.

237
“
an attempt to work out”:
Ibid., 37.

237
And he worried:
Ibid., 38.

237
“
Twenty years ago”:
Ibid., 39.

238
Among Beam’s acquaintances:
Beam’s unpublished manuscript; and John V. H. Dippel,
Two Against Hitler: Stealing the Nazis’ Best-Kept Secrets
, which offers an extensive account of Respondek’s role. Information about Beam’s encounter with Respondek and Muckermann, along with their background information, is drawn from both of these accounts.

240
“
We had watched”:
Erich von Manstein,
Lost Victories
, 23–24.

240
“
the spontaneous outburst”:
Wilson,
A Career Diplomat
, 51.

240
“
stout piece of work”:
Beam, unpublished manuscript.

240
“
I do think”:
Nancy Harvison Hooker, ed.,
The Moffat Papers: Selections from the Diplomatic Journals of Jay Pierrepont Moffat, 1919–1943
, 217.

240
“
completely different”
and rest of Beam’s observations:
Beam, unpublished manuscript.

241
“
He’s still got”:
Shirer,
Berlin Diary
, 142.

241
“
For if they do”:
Ibid., 135.

241
“
a curious commentary”
and rest of September 30 entries:
Ibid., 144–145.

241
Angus Thuermer:
quotes and information from Thuermer interviewed by author (2009) and Thuermer’s unpublished manuscript “What to Do if Your Moustache Falls Off.”

244
Charles Thayer
and his account:
Charles W. Thayer,
The Unquiet Germans
, 161–163.

245
Phillips Talbot
and his account:
Phillips Talbot letter of Dec. 27, 1938 (courtesy of Talbot and the Holocaust Museum); and Talbot interviewed by author (2009).

245
In a letter to:
Wilson,
A Career Diplomat
, 60.

246
“
It was suggested”:
Albert C. Wedemeyer,
Wedemeyer Reports!
, 50.

247
“
tall and handsome”:
Katharine Smith’s unpublished memoir, Truman Smith Papers, boxes 4 and 6, Hoover.

247
Kätchen Smith:
Kätchen interviewed by author (2010).

247
“
out-going, hard-working”
and “
I hope she is not”:
Katharine Smith memoir, Truman Smith Papers, boxes 4 and 6, Hoover.

247
147-page report
and all quotations from report:
Albert C. Wedemeyer Papers, box 6, folder 35, Hoover.

248
“
German methods”:
Wedemeyer,
Wedemeyer Reports!
, 50.

248
“
outstanding as”:
Ibid., 52.

248
“
One of the”:
Ibid., 53.

249
“
But assuredly”:
Ibid., 60.

249
“
subtly revealed”
and “
There would be”
and “
not always discreet”:
Ibid., 56–57.

249
“
stolid, not overly”
to “
at all times friendly”:
Ibid., 54.

249
“
Heil Hitler”:
Ibid., 37.

250
“
. . . however greatly”:
Ibid., 11.

250
“
Beneath the propaganda”:
Ibid., 10.

250
“
It was Al”:
Katharine Smith memoir, Truman Smith Papers, boxes 4 and 6, Hoover.

250
“
I like to think”:
Wedemeyer, 60.

250
“
I had been disillusioned”:
Ibid., 61.

251
“
When I reported”
to “
I don’t want to sound like”:
Memorandum to Colonel Eiler, Albert C. Wedemeyer Papers, box 6, folder 35, Hoover.

252
“
A brief calendar”:
Mowrer,
Germany Puts the Clock Back
, 250.

252
“
an awesome sight”:
Beam, unpublished manuscript.

252
“
many methods”
and budget request:
Manfred Jonas,
The United States and Germany: A Diplomatic History
, 233.

252
“
his eyes aglow”:
Hooker, ed., 232.

252
“
George, I wonder”
and rest of Messersmith-Moffat exchange:
Jesse H. Stiller,
George S. Messersmith: Diplomat of Democracy
, 135.