Papers, box 9, Hoover.
205 “German aviation” and “the best promotion”: Fromm, 224.
205 “How well and how”: Albert C. Wedemeyer Papers, box 61, folder 19, Hoover.
205 “I have had” and rest of August 5 letter: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 87.
206 “While I still have”: Berg, 361.
206 “he is undoubtedly”: Ibid.
206 The event that would cement and Truman Smith’s description, along with Wilson’s letter to Lindbergh: Hessen, ed., 132–133.
207 “a victory by”: Berg, 382.
207 “Hitler’s realistic” and misjudgments about military disaffection: Truman Smith, “Party and Army: Germany–November 1937,” Truman Smith Papers, box 2, Hoover.
207 “I was astonished”: Original manuscript of Smith’s The Facts of Life, 104, Truman Smith Papers, box 2, Hoover.
208 “I could feel”: Hanfstaengl, Hitler, 129.
208 “No!” and other quotes from Hanfstaengl: interviewed by Toland, Library of Congress.
208 “It would be reasonable”: Hanfstaengl, 170.
208 “one of my most bitter”: Wiegand memo, Karl von Wiegand Papers, box 30, Hoover.
209 “probably likes to”: Ibid., box 14, Hoover.
209 “an immense, high-strung”: Shirer, Berlin Diary, 17.
209 “I wonder why” and rest of Hanfstaengl-Fromm exchange: Fromm, 163.
210 “no discourtesy of any kind” and rest of this description of Hanfstaengl arrival controversy: “Reunion: Hanfstaengl’s Arrival Greeted by 3,000 Students,” Newsweek, June 23, 1934.
210 Benjamin Halpern letter and Crimson editorial: Conradi, Hitler’s Piano Player, 145.
210 “There you are”: Hanfstaengl, 223.
211 “I see America”: Ibid., 222.
211 “It was really like”: Ibid., 250.
211 “the demon”: Ibid., 213.
211 “Putz hastily”: Katharine Smith’s unpublished memoir.
212 “to play that”: Hanfstaengl, 265.
212 “Yes, he was extraordinary” and rest of Helen’s account: Niemeyer tape, Toland Collection, Library of Congress.
213 Putzi began smuggling and claims about helping others: Hanfstaengl, 274.
213 According to Putzi’s and subsequent events of purported plot against him: Ibid., 276–284.
214 “a harmless joke”: Conradi, 209.
214 “an elaborate hoax”: David George Marwell, “Unwonted Exile: A Biography of Ernst ‘Putzi’ Hanfstaengl,” Ph.D. dissertation, 13; and Marwell interviewed by author (2011).
214 Back in Berlin and rest of Lochner’s account of tracking down Hanfstaengl: Lochner, Always the Unexpected, 184–186.
215 “I certainly would not”: Dodd and Dodd, eds., Ambassador Dodd’s Diary, 119.
215 “What in the world is the use”: Dallek, Democrat and Diplomat, 271.
216 “telegram deficiency”: Ibid., 272–273.
216 “a historian of” and other Smith quotes: Hessen, ed., 79.
216 “I have seldom”: Katharine Smith’s unpublished memoir.
217 “four years’ service”: Dallek, 295.
217 “In Berlin once more”: Dodd and Dodd, eds., Ambassador Dodd’s Diary, 430.
217 “There were and are still”: Ibid., 445.
217 “Hitler intends to”: Dallek, 332.
217 “The Russians of”: Martha Dodd, 343.
218 “Martha argues that”: Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—the Stalin Era, 52.
218 “frankly expressed”: Ibid., 53.
218 “we have agreed” and subsequent encounter with Slutsky, and Martha’s statement: Ibid., 55–56.
219 “Boris, dear!”: Ibid., 61.
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220 “whether it was” and other quotes from Smith: Howard K. Smith, Last Train from Berlin, 4–16.
222 Like many wealthy undergraduates and quotes from JFK’s diary: Lubrich, ed., Travels in the Reich, 159–161.
223 “The trip up the Rhine” and rest of diary entries along with letter from German engineer to Randolph: Rebecca McBride, “Europe 1938: Travel Diary of John F. Randolph Annotated by His Daughter,” Leo Baeck Institute Archives.
224 “I simply draped”: Howard K. Smith, 26–27.
225 “Murrow, Columbia Broadcasting” and Shirer about Murrow: Shirer, Berlin Diary, 79–80.
226 “Personally, they have not” and other reflections on Berlin experiences: Ibid., 83–87.
226 “The worst has happened”: Ibid., 95.
227 “plays nicely”: Ibid., 90.
227 “a shouting, hysterical”: Ibid., 97.
227 “What’s that”: Ibid., 100.
227 “Well, meine Damen” and rest of cafe scene: Ibid., 101.
227 “Where did” and flights: Ibid., 103.
228 “This morning when”: William L. Shirer, “This Is Berlin”: Radio Broadcasts from Nazi Germany, 14.
228 “entanglements” and Hoover visit to Germany: Gary Dean Best, Herbert Hoover: The Postpresidential Years, 1933–1964, Vol. I, 1933– 1945, 103.
228 “that Hitler was” and other Arentz quotes: Oral history interview of Samuel S. Arentz by Raymond Henle, Oct. 5, 1966, Herbert Hoover Oral History Program, box 2, Hoover. Additional details on Hoover-Hitler meeting, from Richard Norton Smith, An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover, 253–256.
