4 In mid-April, Hitler flew to the naval port: Evans,
5 “Look at those people over there”: Gallo, 35.
6 “Reactionaries, bourgeois conformists”: Ibid., 37.
7 Two days later, however, a government announcement: Ibid., 88–89; Kershaw,
8 “the Man with the Iron Heart”: Deschner, 61, 62, 65, 66; Evans,
9 “I could very well venture combat”: Gisevius, 137.
10 Toward the end of April the government: Kershaw,
1 “Tell Boris Winogradov”: Haynes et al, 432; Weinstein and Vassiliev, 51. Both books present the NKVD message, though the translations vary slightly. I use the Haynes version, which is also the version that can be found online at Vassiliev, Notebooks, White Notebook #2, p. 13, March 28, 1934.
1 A troubling incident: Dodd to Hull, April 17, 1934, Box 44, W. E. Dodd Papers.
2 “It is my opinion,” Dodd wrote: Ibid.
3 Dodd only learned of its existence: Dodd to R. Walton Moore, June 8, 1934, Box 44, W. E. Dodd Papers.
4 Entitled “Their Excellencies”: “Their Excellencies,” 115–16.
5 “reveals a strange and even unpatriotic attitude”: Dodd to William Phillips, June 4, 1934, Box 45, W. E. Dodd Papers.
6 “With regard to that article in
7 “Once there,” he wrote to Martha: Dodd to Martha, April 24, 1934, Box 62, W. E. Dodd Papers. He opens the letter, “Dear ‘Little’ Martha.”
8 “how they and their friends had calmed their fellows”: Dodd,
9 “THEREFORE HOPE YOU CAN BRING NEW CAR”: Mrs. Dodd to Dodd, via John Campbell White, April 19, 1934, Box 44, W. E. Dodd Papers.
10 “I fear Mueller was driving carelessly”: Dodd to Martha, April 25, 1934, Box 62, W. E. Dodd Papers.
11 “ridiculously simple for an Ambassador”: Dodd,
12 “This was a beautiful day”: Ibid., 98.
13 “the syphilis of all European peoples”: Dodd to Roosevelt, Aug. 15, 1934, Box 45, W. E. Dodd Papers.
14 “all the animosities of the preceding winter”: Ibid.
Dodd expresses a similar dismay at being embarrassed in a letter to Edward M. House, May 23, 1934, Box 44, W. E. Dodd Papers. He writes: “You recall what we did to ease off the excitement in Chicago, and you remember perhaps my advice to leading Jews that it would be well to let up a little in the boycott if the Germans gave evidence of a conciliatory attitude.” He closes, “I am frank to say that it has embarrassed me a good deal.”
15 “I was delighted to be home”: Dodd,
PART VI: BERLIN AT DUSK
1 The post of ambassador to Austria: Phillips, Diary, March 16, 1934; Stiller, 54–55.
2 While Dodd was in America: Louis Lochner to Betty Lochner, May 29, 1934, Round Robin Letters, Box 6, Lochner Papers; “List of Persons Invited,” Box 59, W. E. Dodd Papers.
3 “I wonder why we were asked today”: Fromm, 162–64.
4 The host was a wealthy banker: I pieced together the story of the Regendanz dinner from the following accounts: Evans,
Herman Ullstein, of the great German publishing dynasty, tells a darkly amusing story about another meal, this at a fancy restaurant in Potsdam. A man was dining in a group that included an attractive, dark-haired woman. A Nazi from a neighboring table, having concluded the woman was Jewish, asked the group to leave the restaurant. The seated man smiled and asked, “Do you mind if we finish our dinner first?”
Fifteen minutes later, the group was still eating and having a grand time, which caused the Nazi to return and demand that they leave at once.
The seated man calmly gave the Nazi his card, which identified him as “Francois-Poncet,
5 On Thursday, May 24, Dodd walked: Dodd,
1 One of the most important moments in her education: My account of Martha’s day at Carwitz is based on the following sources: Dodd,
After this episode, Martha and Fallada had a brief exchange of letters. She sent him a short story of hers. He sent her a photograph, one of many he had taken that day at Carwitz—“unfortunately the only picture I took which turned out nicely.” Of her story, he wrote, “I wish that you will soon find the necessary quiet time and inner peace to work intensively—it’s worthwhile, I can tell from this little example.” Martha in turn sent along a collection of Boris’s photographs, and told Fallada she hoped one day to visit him again, which seemed to come as a relief to Fallada—“so,” he wrote back, “you did enjoy yourselves.”
She never returned to Carwitz. As the years advanced, she heard little of Fallada or his work, and believed “he must have surrendered completely both his craft and his dignity.” Fallada to Martha, June 8 and June 18, 1934, Box 5, Martha Dodd Papers; Martha Dodd, unpublished memoir, 2, Box 13, Martha Dodd Papers.
2 his pseudonym, Hans Fallada: Ditzen built his pseudonym from the names of two characters from
3 “inner emigration”: Ritchie, 112.
4 “It may be superstitious belief”: Ibid., 115.
5 “By the spring of 1934,” she wrote: Dodd,
6 “The prospect of a cessation”: Dodd to Hull, June 18, 1934 (No. 935), State/Foreign.
7 In May, he reported, the Nazi Party: Ibid.
8 Germany’s Aryan population: Dodd to Hull, June 18, 1934 (No. 932), State/Foreign.
9 “Germany looks dry for the first time”: Dodd,
10 “the great heat”: Moffat, Diary, May 20, 1934.
