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produced, and they were eager to receive each chapter as soon as I wrote it. When my father was hospitalized in the summer of 2010, the first thing he told me was that he was sorry he had to stop reading the chapter he was on three pages before the ending. Although he lived for nearly another year, he wasn’t able to read again. But he kept asking me about my progress as long as he could. There’s no way to express fully my debt to him and to my mother. I also want to thank my sisters, Maria and Terry, and their spouses, Roberto and Diane.

My four grown children—Eva, Sonia, Adam, and Alex—know how much I rely on their love and encouragement, along with all their practical help whenever I need it (which is often). I want to offer special thanks to Eva and Taylor, who were always ready to be first readers and first responders on this project. Like Sonia and Eran and Adam and Sara, they have families of their own now. The names of all their wonderful off- spring appear in the dedication to this book. A promising young writer, Alex was my in-house sounding board for many ideas. I also want to make special mention of the generosity of spirit of my brother-in-law, Waldek Kowalski, and his wife, Ewa.

That brings me back to Krysia, who sparked this project in the first place. The best thing that ever happened in my life was meeting and marrying her during a whirlwind semester as an exchange student at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Because of me, she never finished her studies. But she has been educating me ever since and continues to be my muse, editor, and so much more.

Photo Credits

Associated Press/Wide World Photos: 1, 9, 13, 19, 23, 24, 25

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Getty Images: 4, 20

Courtesy of the Trustees of the Boston Public Library, Print Department: 5

Hoover Institution Archives: 6, 7

© Conde Nast Archive/CORBIS: 8

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Hans-Fallada-Archiv: 12

Courtesy of Katharine (Katchen) Truman Smith Coley: 14, 16

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North Carolina Collection, UNC-CH: 17

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© CORBIS: 26

Courtesy of Alice and Angus Thuermer: 27, 28, 29

Notes

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1 Born in Chicago and other biographical background: Sigrid Schultz, Germany Will Try It Again, viii–ix, 123; and Nancy Caldwell Sorel, The Women Who Wrote the War, 3–4.

1 “Few foreign painters”: Schultz, 123.

1 “enemy aliens”: Ibid., viii.

2 “a sour, disagreeable little man” and other quotes about Raeder: Ibid., 11.

4 “Nobody had read”: Otto Strasser, Hitler and I, 58.

4 “most Americans”: Edgar Ansel Mowrer, Triumph and Turmoil, 164.

5 “the American colony” and other Lochner quotes: Louis Lochner, Always the Unexpected: A Book of Reminiscences, 151, 123.

6 reaching a peak: Howard K. Smith, Last Train from Berlin, 344.

6 Mowrer, for instance: Mowrer, 166.

6 “One thing one forgets”: Conquest interviewed by author (2009).

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10 a loaf of bread: Peter Gay, Weimar Culture, 154.

10 “Orchestra stalls”: Anton Gill, A Dance Between Flames, 75.

10 Carl Zuckmayer attended and “could be freely handled” and other quotes about the party: Ibid., 85.

10 “People have forgotten”: Michael Danzi, American Musician in Germany, 1924–1939, 45–46.

11 “The contrast”: Kurt G. W. Ludecke, I Knew Hitler, 10.

11 “political zanies”: Ben Hecht, A Child of the Century, 252.

11 “all was politics” and “Germany is having”: Ibid., 264–265.

12 “a few years of” and “to be in” and “call into play”: Hugh R. Wilson, Diplomat Between Wars, 3–5.

12 “Rioting seemed to be” and “I myself have seen” and “vituperative”: Wilson, 94–95.

13 “The shabbiness”: Ibid., 94.

13 “traces of”: Ibid., 103.

13 “the interior was” and rest of Katharine Smith’s quotes and descriptions of early days in Berlin in this chapter: Katharine Alling Hollister Smith autobiographical writings and correspondence, Truman Smith Papers, box 14, Hoover Institution Archives.

14 He was a 1915 Yale graduate and other biographical details: Robert Hessen, ed., Berlin Alert: The Memoirs and Reports of Truman Smith, xiii–xiv; and Katharine (Katchen) Truman Smith Coley interviewed by author (2010).

15 “With the end of the war”: Wilson, 103.

15 “The Germans, then”: Ibid., 98.