Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power (63 page)

253
On April 14:
Jonas, 234.

253
“
could advantageously bend”:
Hooker, ed., 220.

254
“
the undisputed dean”
and other quotes from
Cosmopolitan
, April and May 1939 issues:
Wiegand Papers, box 31, Hoover.

CHAPTER TEN
: “
ON OUR ISLAND
”

PAGE

256
“
I sat for four hours”
and other Lochner quotes from letters:
“Round Robins from Berlin,”
Wisconsin Magazine of History
, Summer 1967.

257
The reports by Truman Smith:
Joseph C. Harsch,
Pattern of Conquest
, 41.

257
By early summer:
Hooker, ed.,
The Moffat Papers
, 251.

257
“
Optimistic Poles”:
H. R. Knickerbocker,
Is Tomorrow Hitler’s? 200 Questions on the Battle of Mankind
, 29.

257
“
The Polish ambassador”:
Hooker, ed., 249.

258
“
the death of”:
John Gunther,
Inside Europe
, xxviii.

258
“
There is a chance”:
Ibid., xxii.

258
“
John fairly optimistic”:
Shirer,
Berlin Diary
, 170.

258
“
looked clean”
and exchange with Captain D:
Ibid., 171.

259
“
How completely isolated,”
German headlines, “
For perverse”
and “
Struck by”:
Ibid., 172–173.

259
“
completely Nazified”:
Ibid., 174.

259
“
this powder-keg”
and rest of Gdynia broadcast:
Shirer, “
This Is Berlin
,” 53.

259
“
We’re ready”
and Warsaw visit entries:
Shirer,
Berlin Diary
, 176–178.

260
“
bombshell”
and “
There is no doubt”
and odds of war:
Hooker, ed., 250–251.

260
“
It goes much further”
and scene in Die Taverne:
Shirer,
Berlin Diary
, 180–181.

261
“
The people in the streets”:
Ibid., 183.

261
“
From about the middle”
and other Beam recollections:
Beam, unpublished manuscript.

262
“
something was going to”
and rest of Thuermer account:
Thuermer interviewed by author (2009).

263
“
The excitement of”
and rest of William Russell’s account of August 31:
William Russell,
Berlin Embassy
, 5–29.

265
Józef Lipski
and his story:
Beam, unpublished memoir.

265
“
I have once more”:
Ibid.

265
“
a curious strain”
and rest of Shirer’s account of Sept. 1–2:
Shirer,
Berlin Diary
, 197–199.

266
“
After, say, about 1
A.M
.
”:
Shirer, “
This Is Berlin
,” 71.

266
“
One expected”:
Russell, 31.

266
“
The people I have met”:
Ibid., 33–34.

267
“
It begins to”
and rest of Shirer’s initial war diary entries:
Shirer,
Berlin Diary
, 204–207.

267
“
The war is raging”:
Russell, 38.

267
“
Drove all day”
and rest of Shirer account of Baltic coast fighting:
Shirer,
Berlin Diary
, 212–214.

268
Joseph Grigg
and his account, including Hitler at Warsaw airport:
Frederick Oechsner,
This Is the Enemy
, 143–151.

268
The AP’s Lochner
and stories from Poland:
Louis Lochner,
What About Germany?
, 124–125.

269
“
that Germany is invincible”
and “
I hope”:
Russell, 51.

269
“
follow me blindly”
and exchange with maid:
Schultz,
Germany Will Try It Again
, 186–187.

270
“
squeals and shouts”
and rest of reactions to newsreels and massacres:
Ibid., 187–189.

270
“
Now go to Berlin,”
getting to Berlin and early days there:
Joseph C. Harsch,
At the Hinge of History, A Reporter’s Story
, 38–43.

272
“
pretty awful”
and “
I was an American”:
Hottelet interviewed by author (2009).

272
“
The troops seemed”:
Shirer,
Berlin Diary
, 234.

272
“
in the vain hope”:
Russell, 128.

273
“
the hope of”
and “
It is better”:
Otto D. Tolischus,
They Wanted War
, 199.

273
“
One Breslau daily”
and rest of Oct. 8 letter:
Louis Lochner, “Round Robins from Berlin,”
Wisconsin Magazine of History
, Summer 1967.

273
“
In the darkness”:
Russell, 53.

273
“
the groping”:
George F. Kennan,
Memoirs: 1925–1950
, 107.

274
“
Shan’t we go”
and rest of encounter with streetwalker:
Ibid., 109–112.

274
At the Soviet Embassy’s
and exchange between American correspondents and Goering:
Shirer,
Berlin Diary
, 245–246.

275
According to the joke:
Harsch,
Pattern of Conquest
, 59.

275
Russell estimated:
Russell, 75.

275
“
If the United States”:
Ibid., 90–91.

275
“
It was hard”:
Kennan, 112.

276
“
the most intelligent”:
Shirer,
Berlin Diary
, 284.

276
“
isolated on our island”:
Russell, 84.

276
goods displayed
:
Ibid., 101.

276
“
A hundred or so”
and Oechsner dinner:
Shirer,
Berlin Diary
, 252.

277
“
embarrassingly large”
and follow-up:
Russell, 49–50.

277
In January 1940:
Ibid., 128.

277
“
unmistakable inner detachment”:
Kennan, 108–109.

277
“
But here Germany was”:
Russell, 129.

278
two tin bathtubs
:
Ibid., 131–132.

278
“I never expected”
and rest of Jane Dyer episode:
Ibid., 142.

CHAPTER ELEVEN: FEEDING THE SQUIRRELS

PAGE

279
“
We had not”
and rest of Russell departure from Germany:
Russell, 203–208.

280
“
The last thing”:
Harsch,
At the Hinge of History
, 47.

281
“
Only one thing”:
Sumner Welles,
The Time for Decision
, 77.

281
Arriving on the morning
and rest of Welles visit:
Ibid., 90–109.

283
“
my uncompromising”
and account of Mooney mission:
Lochner,
Always the Unexpected,
262–272.

284
“
I was stunned”:
Shirer,
Berlin Diary
, 312.

284
“
I never dreamed”:
Harsch,
At the Hinge of History
, 48.

284
Broadcasting from Berlin:
Shirer, “
This Is Berlin
,” 246–247.

284
“
Hitler is sowing”:
Shirer,
Berlin Diary
, 317.

285
“
the German steamroller”:
Ibid., 335.

285
“
It’s been dream”
and other Lochner quotes from Belgium:
Lochner, “The Blitzkrieg in Belgium: A Newsman’s Eyewitness Account,”
Wisconsin Magazine of History
, Summer 1967.

285
“
the behavior of”:
Shirer, “
This Is Berlin
,” 289.

285
“
houses smashed”:
Shirer,
Berlin Diary
, 353–354.

286
“
But eyeing”
and exchange with German nun:
Ibid., 360.

286
He and two other reporters
and account of tensions among American correspondents:
Harsch,
At the Hinge of History
, 45.

286
“
Some of the correspondents”:
Henry W. Flannery,
Assignment to Berlin
, 41.

287
“
when he has forced”
and “
Every German soldier”:
Lochner, “The Blitzkrieg in Belgium.”

287
“
A most discouraging”:
Beam, unpublished manuscript.

287
“
France did not fight”:
Shirer,
Berlin Diary
, 434.

288
“
He folded his arms”
and rest of Hitler at Napoleon’s tomb:
Pierre J. Huss,
The Foe We Face
, 210–212.

289
“
It was Hitler triumphant”
and rest of July 19 event, including Kirk’s reaction:
Harsch,
At the Hinge of History
, 49–50.

289
“
The little groups”:
Harsch,
Pattern of Conquest
, 53–54.

290
“
The loot of”:
Ibid., 45–46.

290
“
These Germans”:
Ibid., 46–47.

290
“
a violent anti-Nazi”
and rest of Schultz’s observations on German women:
Schultz,
Germany Will Try It Again
, 143–146.

291
“
books and magazines”:
Flannery, 115.

291
“
The word
illegitimate
”:
Ibid., 114.

292
“
their murder of”
and “
After weeks of”:
Ibid., 110–111.

292
“
I was one of”:
Ibid., 13.

293
“
human interest”
and other Delaney quotes:
Edward L. Delaney,
Five Decades Before Dawn
, 58.

293
“
wanton, premeditated”:
Ibid., 85.

293
“
He has a diseased”
and other Shirer remarks about Americans working for German radio:
Shirer,
Berlin Diary
, 528–529.

294
“
swept by”
and “
hiking club”
episode:
John Carver Edwards,
Berlin Calling: American Broadcasters in Service to the Third Reich
, 8–9.

294
On June 25, 1933:
Postcard from and clippings about Frederick Kaltenbach, Frederick W. Kaltenbach Papers, box 1, Hoover.

294
“
Dear Harry”:
Edwards, 11.

294
“
Roosevelt, himself an off-spring”:
Horst J. P. Bergmeier and Rainer E. Lotz,
Hitler’s Airwaves: The Inside Story of Nazi Radio Broadcasting and Propaganda Swing
, 61.