305 “the hottest game” and “Everything else”: Ibid., ix–x.
305 “Many times I heard her say”: Harsch, At the Hinge of History, 55.
305 “knew everything”: Howard K. Smith, 226.
306 “on suspicion of espionage” and rest of Hottelet’s account: Richard C. Hottelet, “Guest of Gestapo,” San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 3, 1941; Hottelet interviewed by author.
306 “Had he been” and other Smith comments about Hottelet: Howard K. Smith, 226–227.
306 Beam, who: Beam, unpublished manuscript.
307 “Your situation is”: Howard K. Smith, 346.
307 “Czech patriots”: Ibid., 348.
307 “utterly vapid”: Ibid., 349.
307 Like other American reporters: Ibid., 344.
308 “We who have been” and on German character: Shirer, Berlin Diary, 584–585.
309 “I am firmly convinced”: Ibid., 591–592.
309 “The question before” and “The alternative”: Harsch, Pattern of Conquest, 303–304.
309 Huss interviewed Hitler with quotes and description: Huss, 279–300.
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311 “The similarities” and rest of descriptions and quotes on December 7 and immediate aftermath: Kennan, Memoirs, 134–135.
311 It was a titanic struggle and statistics on battle for Moscow: Andrew Nagorski, The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II, 2.
312 “General Mud and General Cold”: Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova, eds., A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941–1945, 223.
312 Germany an economic powerhouse: Kershaw, Hitler, 1936– 1945: Nemesis, 434.
313 “We can’t lose”: Ibid., 442.
313 “We are all”: Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance, 605.
313 “To me the best tidings”: Richard M. Langworth, ed., Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations, 132.
313 The sudden rash of: Charles B. Burdick, An American Island in Hitler’s Reich: The Bad Nauheim Internment, 9.
313 only fifteen, less than a third: See Howard K. Smith, 344, for original number of about fifty.
314 “enemy aliens”: For a description of one of these cases, see HistoryLink.org Essay 8654.
314 “will be done” and rest of Lochner account of press conference, including Schmidt quote: Lochner, What About Germany?, 360–361.
314 bye-bye and rest of Thuermer account: Thuermer, unpublished manuscript, and interview with author.
315 Friends kept dropping by and account of Lochner’s arrest: Lochner, What About Germany?, 363–364.
316 “We still have” and “The Gestapo” and breakfast: Ibid., 364–366.
316 At the embassy and scene with von Ribbentrop: Kennan, 135–136.
316 “entire satanic insidiousness”: Kershaw, 446.
316 cheering news: Lochner, What About Germany?, 366–367.
317 Hitler had ordered: Kennan, 136.
317 Returning to their homes: Burdick, 28.
317 132 Americans: Louis Lochner, “Americans Fed Better Than Germans, But Still Lose Weight,” AP dispatch published in the Frederick Post, May 20, 1942, Associated Press Corporate Archives.
317 It had been closed: Burdick, 37.
317 In January and February: Lochner, What About Germany?, 369.
318 “This showed us”: Lochner, AP dispatch, May 20, 1942.
318 To deal with the constant problems and Patzak also allowed: Burdick, 47.
319 “It is in the general interest”: Ibid., 46.
319 “a rather unique”: Lochner, What About Germany?, 369.
319 The AP’s Ed Shanke: Ibid., 370–371; and Burdick, 48.
319 Alvin Steinkopf: Burdick, 51, 57.
319 “Badheim University” and “Education of the ignorant”: Burdick, 62–63. Other details about activities from Thuermer, unpublished manuscript, and Thuermer interviewed by author.
320 Kennan won permission and other baseball details: Burdick, 85; also Thuermer, unpublished manuscript, and interview.
320 “for disciplinary control”: Kennan, 136.
320 British bombers: Burdick, 96.
321 “to keep the more” and breakfast story at the border: Kennan, 137–138.
321 “We had not”: Ibid., 139.
321 “The department”: Ibid., 139–140.
322 Drottningholm: Burdick, 106.
