In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

1 “tense and electric”: Dodd, Embassy Eyes, 134.

2 The change was obvious: Gallo, 122.

Chapter 42: Hermann’s Toys

1 Sunday, June 10, 1934: My account of this creepily charming episode is derived from the following sources: Cerruti, 178–80; Dodd, Diary, 108–9; Phipps, 56–58. I also examined Goring’s own portfolio of photographs of Carinhall, Lot 3810, in the photographic archives of the Library of Congress.

2 “rather attached to her”: Dodd, Embassy Eyes, 220.

Chapter 43: A Pygmy Speaks

1 The names of two former chancellors: Wheeler-Bennett, Nemesis, 315–17.

2 “Everywhere I go men talk of resistance”: Dodd to Hull, June 16, 1934, Box 44, W. E. Dodd Papers.

3 “The speech took months of preparation”: Evans, Power, 29–30; Jones, 167–73; Gallo, 137–40; Kershaw, Hubris, 509–10, 744 n. 57; Shirer, Rise, 218–19.

4 “I am told,” he began: For text, see Noakes and Pridham, 209–10; and Papen, 307. Also see Jones, 172; Gallo, 139–40; Kershaw, Hubris, 509. In his memoir, published in 1953, Papen states, “I prepared my speech with great care.…” This claim has been widely discounted. Papen, 307.

5 “The thunder of applause”: Gallo, 141.

6 “It is difficult to describe the joy”: Wheeler-Bennett, Titan, 459.

7 “All these little dwarfs”: Gallo, 143–44; Shirer, Rise, 219. Also see Kershaw, Hubris, 510.

8 “If they should at any time”: Kershaw, Hubris, 510.

9 “were snatched from the hands of the guests”: Dodd to Hull, June 26, 1934, State/Foreign. For other details of the government’s reaction, see Evans, Power, 29–30; Jones, 172–74; Kershaw, Hubris, 510–11; Shirer, Rise, 218; Wheeler-Bennett, Titan, 460, and Nemesis, 319.

10 “There was something in the sultry air”: Gisevius, 128.

11 Someone threw a hand-grenade fuse: Ibid., 129.

12 “There was so much whispering”: Ibid., 129.

13 “Everywhere uncertainty, ferment”: Klemperer, Witness, 71. Klemperer looked to the weather to fuel his hopes that Hitler would be deposed. He wrote in his diary, “ ‘Beautiful weather’ = heat + lack of rain, abnormal lack of rain, such as has been causing havoc for three months now. A weapon against Hitler!” Witness, 72.

14 “There is now great excitement”: Dodd, Diary, 114; Dodd, Memorandum, June 18, 1934, Box 59, W. E. Dodd Papers.

15 “I spoke at Marburg”: Gallo, 152.

16 He promised to remove the propaganda: Evans, Power, 30; Kershaw, Hubris, 510.

17 “It was with cold calculation”: Gisevius, 131.

18 The next day, June 21, 1934: Evans, Power, 30; Kershaw, Hubris, 510–11; Wheeler-Bennett, Nemesis, 320.

19 “who after the Marburg speech”: Dodd, Diary, 114.

20 “The week closes quietly”: Ibid., 115.

Chapter 44: The Message in the Bathroom

1 “He was entirely calm and fatalistic”: Wheeler-Bennett, Titan, 462.

2 “Woe to him who breaks faith”: Wheaton, 443.

3 On the medicine chest: Jones, 173.

4 “beautiful Rhineland summer day”: Diels, 419.

Chapter 45: Mrs. Cerruti’s Distress

1 “During the last five days”: Dodd, Diary, 115–16.

2 “the situation was much as it was in Paris”: Ibid., 116.

3 “by the example of his magnetism”: Martha Dodd, “Bright Journey into Darkness,” 18, 21, Box 14, Martha Dodd Papers.

4 Under Stalin, peasants had been forced: Riasanovsky, 551, 556. A personal note here: While I was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, I took two wonderful courses from Riasanovsky’s brother, Alexander, who on one noteworthy evening taught me and my roommates how to drink vodka Russian-style. It was his delightful lecture style, however, that had the greater influence, and drove me to spend most of my time at Penn studying Russian history, literature, and language.

5 Tour No. 9, the Volga-Caucasus-Crimea tour: “Detailed Schedule of Tour No. 9 for Miss Martha Dodd,” Box 62, W. E. Dodd Papers.

6 “Martha!” he wrote, indulging his passion: Boris to Martha, June 7, 1934, Box 10, Martha Dodd Papers.

7 “I never plotted the overthrow”: Martha to Agnes Knickerbocker, July 16, 1969, Box 13, Martha Dodd Papers.

8 “It was the hottest day”: Cerruti, 153.

9 “seemed self-confident”: Dodd, Embassy Eyes, 140.

10 “You and Dr. Goebbels”: Dodd, Diary, 116.

11 “She sat by my father”: Dodd, Embassy Eyes, 141.

12 “Mr. Ambassador, something terrible”: Ibid., 141.

13 She found this astonishing: Cerruti, 153, 157.

14 “Temperature 101 and ? in the shade today”: Moffat, Diary, June 29, 1934.

15 The three men undressed and climbed in: Ibid.

16 “Presumably the Ambassador has been complaining”: Phillips, Diary, June 15, 1934.

17 “well and in extremely high spirits”: Moffat, Diary, July 17, 1934.

Chapter 46: Friday Night

1 That Friday evening, July 29, 1934: For this chapter I relied on the following sources: Birchall, 203; Evans, Power, 31–32; Gallo, 33, 38, 106; Kershaw, Hubris, 511–15. For a lengthy excerpt of Kempka’s account, see Noakes and Pridham, 212–14.

PART VII: WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED

Chapter 47: “Shoot, Shoot!”

1 “strolled serenely through the streets”: Adlon, 207.

   Hedda Adlon, wife of the Adlon’s proprietor, liked driving about town in her white Mercedes, and was said to keep twenty-eight Pekinese dogs. De Jonge, 132.

2 “It was a beautiful serene blue day”: Dodd, Embassy Eyes, 141.

3 “Rohm,” Hitler barked: Various and varying accounts of this episode appear in the literature. I relied on Kershaw, Hubris, 514; Noakes and Pridham, 213–14; and Strasser, 250.

4 “It is never safe to despise a telephone call”: Birchall, 193.

5 “dead tired—[could] weep”: Schultz, Daily Logs, July 5, 1934, Box 32, Schultz Papers.

6 One of the most alarming rumors: Birchall, 198.

7 At the Hotel Hanselbauer, Rohm got dressed: Noakes and Pridham, 213.

8 “You have been condemned to death”: Kershaw, Hubris, 514.

9 “As I followed Daluege”: Gisevius, 150.

10 He looked troubled: Dodd, Diary, 117.