39 “What wonder”: Niemeyer “Notes.”
40 “a definite public character” and Knickerbocker biographical details: H. R. Knickerbocker, Is Tomorrow Hitler’s? 200 Questions on the Battle of Mankind, foreword by John Gunther, xii–xiii.
40 “The first impression” and “the expression of his face”: Ibid., 1–2.
40 “He is softly fat”: Ibid., 3.
40 “He knew the thing”: Hanfstaengl, 49.
41 “hysterical enthusiasm” and Hanfstaengl’s introduction of Harvard marching songs and Hitler’s reactions: Ibid., 51.
41 he put up $1,000: Ibid., 53.
41 “If there is” and Hitler’s views of the U.S., Henry Ford and Ku Klux Klan: Ibid., 40–41.
42 the price for the three beers: Ibid., 96.
42 “Quiet!” and most of Beer Hall Putsch account: John Toland, Adolf Hitler, Vol. I, 163–165.
42 “Gentlemen, not one of us”: Otto Strasser, Hitler and I, 41.
42 press conference: Hanfstaengl, 99.
42 “REBELS IN COUP”: Wiegand Papers, box 26, Hoover.
43 Fourteen Nazis died and other putsch details: Ian Kershaw, Hitler, 1889–1936: Hubris, 210–11. (Other accounts put the number of Nazis shot and killed as sixteen, not fourteen. Hitler would regularly honor sixteen “martyrs” of the Beer Hall Putsch once he took power.)
43 “I can testify”: Murphy, 39–40.
43 Ludendorff surrendered: Kershaw, 211.
43 “My God” and Hanfstaengl’s actions and “The last place”: Hanfstaengl, 105–106.
44 “one of his theoretical passions”: Ibid., 50–51.
44 “a neuter”: Niemeyer interviewed by Toland.
44 “To my utter amazement” and rest of account of Hitler’s arrival through doctor’s explanation of how they got to the Hanfstaengl house: Niemeyer “Notes.”
45 The next morning and events then in Hanfstaengl’s house: Toland, 183– 184.
45 “Now all is lost” and rest of Helen’s account of Hitler when facing arrest, along with scene with gun: Niemeyer “Notes” and Niemeyer interviewed by Toland.
46 “What are the bad”: Niemeyer “Notes.”
47 “a cultural riot” and “the leaders of” and other Mowrer descriptions: Edgar Ansel Mowrer, Triumph and Turmoil, 194–197.
47 “In Berlin ice” and other Lilian quotes about initial impressions: Lilian Mowrer, Journalist’s Wife, 180–183.
47 “but something in” and other comments on appeal: Ibid., 190.
48 “the most vital”: Ibid., 201.
48 “Nowhere in the world”: Ibid., 205–206.
48 “They were so wonderfully”: Ibid., 190–191.
48 “a full-fledged” and Lilian’s other comments about women: Ibid., 192.
48 “It was the greatest” and other film observations: Ibid., 213–214.
49 “Quit bothering”: Edgar Ansel Mowrer, 199.
49 “I was becoming”: Lilian Mowrer, 191.
49 “All in all”: Matthews, Alanson B. Houghton, Ambassador of the New Era, 75–76.
49 “to save what is”: Ibid., 77.
49 “I feel as if”: Ibid., 87.
50 “just claims”: Manfred Jonas, The United States and Germany: A Diplomatic History, 172.
50 “The United States is”: Ibid., 181.
50 “The Americanization”: Wiegand Papers, box 27, Hoover.
51 “By the early twenties” and “that complex of factors”: Edgar Ansel Mowrer, 187, 189.
51 “It’s madness” and “an intensity” and details of Baker’s stay, including gifts: Jean-Claude Baker and Chris Chase, Josephine: The Hungry Heart, 124–129.
52 “The period immediately”: Edgar Ansel Mowrer, Germany Puts the Clock Back, 153.
52 “sexual perversions”: Ibid., 155.
52 “These were elegant”: Hecht, 256.
52 “The air we breathed”: Franz Schulze, Philip Johnson: Life and Work, 412.
52 “I think if it” and “The Americans”: Ibid., 53– 54.
53 “Treason to the Republic”: Lilian Mowrer, 186.
53 “had the same goal”: William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, 115.
53 “You may pronounce”: Ibid., 118.
54 “He spoke with” and rest of Mowrer report: Lilian Mowrer, 186.
54 “While the putsch” and “vanished into oblivion”: Murphy, Diplomat Among Warriors, 40.
55 “even as a side issue” and “as far as”: Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Peace and Counter-peace: From Wilson to Hitler, 309–310.
55 “Hemingway by the way”: Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker Papers, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
55 Knickerbocker, who would: Richard Lingeman, Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street, 313.
55 some accounts claim: Peter Kurth, American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson, 487.
56 “Do come on up” and rest of Lilian Mowrer’s account: Lilian Mowrer, 221.
56 “International relations”: Victoria de Grazia, Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance Through Twentieth-Century Europe, 75.
56 “These were the brilliant”: Kurth, 93.
57 “an authentic record” and “The Graf Zeppelin is more than”: Wiegand Papers, box 30, Hoover.
57 “You have indeed cared” and other correspondence: Wiegand Papers, box 8, Hoover.
57 “brilliant British woman” and “internationally-known”: New York American, Sept. 1, 1929; and Wiegand Papers, box 30, Hoover.
58 “full of promise”: Kurth, 92.
58 “Though externals”: Lilian Mowrer, 247.
58 “Where but”: Edgar Ansel Mowrer, Triumph and Turmoil, 160.
