160 “that the Germans”: Ibid., 162.
160 That same week and “Poor Germany”: Dodd and Dodd, eds., Ambassador Dodd’s Diary, 119.
160 In his diary entry of July 8 and “I can think of” and “My task here”: Ibid., 122–123.
161 Back in 1925 and rest of early Shirer bio: http://www.traces.org/williamshirer.html, and from William L. Shirer, Berlin Diary, 3.
161 “the worst job I’ve ever had”: Shirer, Berlin Diary, 10.
161 “The Paris that”: Ibid., 4.
161 “And what a story!” and rest of June 30 diary entry: Ibid., 11.
161 “One had almost”: Ibid., 12.
162 “another young American”: William Shirer, The Traitor, 58–60.
162 “Who can be”: Shirer, Berlin Diary, 13.
162 “unconditional obedience to”: Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 314.
162 “The man is”: Shirer, Berlin Diary, 13.
163 “Nobody believes that”: Fromm, 174.
163 “what would have been”: “Hitler Averted Massacre, Won Army’s Fealty” (name of newspaper missing from clipping), Aug. 4, 1934, Karl H. von Wiegand Collection, box 30, Hoover.
163 “Hitler has attained”: “Hitler Challenges Foes to Plebiscite Call; Hopes to Show Masses Back Him,” New York American, Aug. 4, 1934, Wiegand Collection, box 30, Hoover.
163 “Must brush up”: Shirer, Berlin Diary, 13.
163 “Herr So-and-So” and rest of August 25 diary entry: Ibid., 14.
164 “for Rohm” and “in Germany,” and account of Thompson’s trip from Austria to Germany, including stay in Berlin: Dorothy Thompson, “Good-by to Germany,” Harper’s, Dec. 1934.
167 “In view of”: Sanders, Dorothy Thompson, 392.
167 “The general feeling”: Kurth, American Cassandra, 202–203.
167 “a little tearful”: Sanders, 198.
167 “blasphemy” and “My offense”: Kurth, 203.
168 “Germany has gone”: Ibid., 204.
168 “I miss”: Shirer, Berlin Diary, 15.
168 Back in the United States: Richard Lingeman, Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street, 407.
168 “My one ambition”: Sinclair Lewis, It Can’t Happen Here, 68.
169 “There is no excuse”: Lingeman, 409.
169 “slick, debonair”: Shirer, Berlin Diary, 41.
169 “Hitlerland” and “Naziland”: Pierre J. Huss, The Foe We Face, vii and 6.
169 “You had to work”: Ibid., ix.
169 “alight” and rest of Huss account of meeting with Hitler in Obersalzberg: Ibid., 1–6.
171 “Reporting from Germany”: Lochner, Always the Unexpected, 223.
171 In a letter to William Randolph Hearst: Karl H. von Wiegand Papers, box 14, Hoover.
171 On more than one occasion, Sigrid Schultz and rest of her account: David Brown and W. Richard Bruner, eds., How I Got That Story, 75–81.
172 “Like a Roman Emperor” and rest of Nuremberg diary entries: Shirer, Berlin Diary, 16–23.
174 “His followers” and rest of Lochner’s account: “Round Robins from Berlin,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, Summer 1967.
175 There was, I must admit: Richard Helms, A Look over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency, 23.
175 “the city, the surroundings”: Ben Procter, William Randolph Hearst: Final Edition, 1911–1951, 185.
176 “a unanimous expression”: “Hearst Is Quoted as Hailing Nazi Vote,” New York Times, Aug. 23, 1934.
176 “Why am I” and rest of Hearst-Hitler encounter: Procter, 186–187.
177 “bragging about”: Fromm, 184.
177 “Hitler is certainly”: Procter, 187.
177 “Hitler needs a woman” and rest of Martha Dodd’s account of her meeting with Hitler: Martha Dodd, 63–65.
178 “I ostentatiously kept”: Robert H. Lochner, Ein Berliner unter dem Sternenbanner: Erinnerungen eines amerikanischen Zeitzeugen, 12.
179 “Ever afterwards”: From “What to Do if Your Moustache Falls Off,” unpublished manuscript of Angus Thuermer (courtesy of the author).
179 “Once you look” and description of Goebbels reception: Louis Lochner, What About Germany?, 120–121.
179 “extremely pleasant, handsome”: Martha Dodd, 49.
179 “blond Aryan”: Ibid., 50.
179 “most violent” and “the tall boy”: Ibid., 42.
180 “She just liked sleeping”: Katrina Vanden Heuvel, “Grand Illusions,” Vanity Fair, Sept. 1991.
180 “at least twelve” and rest of Martha’s early account of Diels: Martha Dodd, 51–56, 134–139.
180 “I was intrigued”: Ibid., 53.
180 “a pathetic”: Ibid., 134.
180 “Martha, you are” and “I was extremely”: Ibid., 136.
180 He wanted: Dodd and Dodd, eds., 65; and Martha Dodd, 138.
181 “a nervous state”: Martha Dodd, 54.
181 “a frightened rabbit”: Ibid., 135.
181 He was a tall, blond and Vinogradov at Die Taverne: Shareen Blair Brysac, Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra, 155–156.
182 “they had no future” along with Mildred Harnack biographical details: Ibid., 99.
182 “It is said by”: Ibid., 113.
182 “hopefulness and achievement”: Ibid., 119.
182 “the scene of”: Ibid., 99.
182 “amazed at”: Martha Dodd, 99.
