Andrew Nagorski - Hitlerland

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Hitler’s rise to power, Germany’s march to the abyss, as seen through the eyes of Americans—diplomats, military, expats, visiting authors, Olympic athletes—who watched horrified and up close. By tapping a rich vein of personal testimonies,
offers a gripping narrative full of surprising twists—and a startlingly fresh perspective on this heavily dissected era. Some of the Americans in Weimar and then Hitler’s Germany were merely casual observers, others deliberately blind; a few were Nazi apologists. But most slowly began to understand the horror of what was unfolding, even when they found it difficult to grasp the breadth of the catastrophe.
Among the journalists, William Shirer, Edgar Mowrer, and Dorothy Thompson were increasingly alarmed. Consul General George Messersmith stood out among the American diplomats because of his passion and courage. Truman Smith, the first American official to meet Hitler, was an astute political observer and a remarkably resourceful military attaché. Historian William Dodd, whom FDR tapped as ambassador in Hitler’s Berlin, left disillusioned; his daughter Martha scandalized the embassy with her procession of lovers from her initial infatuation with Nazis she took up with. She ended as a Soviet spy.
On the scene were George Kennan, who would become famous as the architect of containment; Richard Helms, who rose to the top of the CIA; Howard K. Smith, who would coanchor the
. The list of prominent visitors included writers Sinclair Lewis and Thomas Wolfe, famed aviator Charles Lindbergh, the great athlete Jesse Owens, newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, and black sociologist and historian W.E.B. Dubois.
Observing Hitler and his movement up close, the most perceptive of these Americans helped their reluctant countrymen begin to understand the nature of Nazi Germany as it ruthlessly eliminated political opponents, instilled hatred of Jews and anyone deemed a member of an inferior race, and readied its military and its people for a war for global domination. They helped prepare Americans for the years of struggle ahead.

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184 “ Part of Tom’s”: Martha Dodd, 91.

185 “ like a butterfly”: Brysac, 179.

185 “ disturbing things”: Berg, 270.

185 “ If there were”: Aldo P. Magi and Richard Walser, eds., Thomas Wolfe Interviewed, 1929–1938 , 67.

185 “ a much soberer person”: Martha Dodd, 94.

185 I Have a Thing to Tell You excerpts: C. Hugh Holman, ed., The Short Novels of Thomas Wolfe.

187 “ I came away”: Magi and Walser, eds., 88.

CHAPTER EIGHT: “A MAD HATTER’S LUNCHEON PARTY”

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188 “ the season of” and other quotes: Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again , 484–486.

188 “ Jews, Frenchmen”: David Clay Large, Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936 , 43.

188 “ plot of Freemasons and Jews”: Ibid., 49.

189 “ a disgrace and”: Ibid., 58.

189 “ For us National Socialists”: Ibid, 61.

189 Theodor Lewald background: Susan D. Bachrach, The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936 , 13.

189 “ enormous propaganda” and rest of Lewald pitch: Large, 63.

189 “ My personal”: Bachrach, 45–47.

189 “ competitors of all”: Large, 71.

190 “ no discrimination” and other details of Brundage visit: Ibid., 79.

190 “ the token Negro” and rest of Sherrill account: Ibid., 84–85.

190 “ flagrant discrimination” and rest of Dodd’s account: Ibid., 97.

191 “ this will be” and rest of Messersmith, Geist accounts: Ibid., 94–96.

191 “ A consummate”: Ibid., 98.

191 The daily spectacle: Wolfe, 485.

192 “ At last he came”: Ibid., 486.

192 “ Berlin is now”: Large, 187.

192 “ Everything was free”: Rudi Josten interviewed by Peter Gehrig, Dec. 4, 2004, and Mar. 23, 2005, Oral History Collection, Associated Press Corporate Archives.

192 The Nazis even allowed: Large, 186.

192 “ A glittering swirl”: Fromm, 226.

192 “ I’m afraid the Nazis”: Shirer, Berlin Diary , 65.

192 Carla de Vries: Large, 225.

192 Swimmer Eleanor Holm Jarrett: Ibid., 180.

193 “ an orgasmic” and “ It was unfair”: Fromm, 225.

193 “ a war whoop” and “ Hitler twisted”: Martha Dodd, 212.

193 “ Negroes should not”: Bachrach, 96.

193 Cheers went up and invitations to black athletes: Ibid., 95.

193 “ Jesse Owens ran”: Oliver Lubrich, ed., Travels in the Reich, 1933–1945: Foreign Authors Report from Germany , 138.

194 “ Owens was a quiet”: Helms, A Look over My Shoulder , 26.

194 “ I have been treated” and rest of DuBois account: Lubrich, ed., 142–143.

195 “ Wearing gray flannel”: Fromm, 225–226.

195 “ When Huber presented” and rest of Morris story: Leni Riefenstahl, Leni Riefen-stahl: A Memoir , 196–198.

196 “ his sad fate”: Ibid., 200.

196 At an official function and Hitler-Smith exchange: Robert Hessen, ed., Berlin Alert , 47.

196 “ Berlin was so familiar” and other Katharine Smith quotes throughout: Katharine Alling Hollister Smith, “My Life: Berlin August 1935–April 1939,” Truman Smith Papers, boxes 4 and 16, Hoover.

197 “ Your past relationship”: Hessen, ed., 27.

199 Kätchen, who was: Kätchen Coley interviewed by author (2010).

199 “ of air corps”: Hessen, ed., 78.

199 “ their wits alone”: Ibid., 83.

199 “ How fast can you”: Katharine Smith’s unpublished memoir.

200 Two months later and origins of proposal to Lindbergh: Hessen, ed., 87–88.

200 “ I need hardly tell you”: Ibid., 89.

200 “ extremely interested”: Ibid., 91.

201 “ Colonel Smith is” and other diary quotes: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, The Flower and the Nettle: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1936–1939 , 72–76.

202 “ We, who are in aviation”: Hessen, ed., 95.

202 “ But no more speeches”: Katharine Smith’s unpublished memoir.

202 “ Goering showed many facets”: Hessen, ed., 101.

202 “ blazoned in”: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 85.

203 “ I find that to laugh” and description of lion encounter: Katharine Smith’s unpublished manuscript, except where Anne is quoted.

203 “ I see and say nothing”: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 86.

203 When Goering’s lion: Kätchen Coley interviewed by author (2010).

204 “ Smith, there are”: Hessen, ed., 102.

204 At Rostock: Ibid., 96–97.

204 “ we have nothing” and “ a spirit”: A. Scott Berg, Lindbergh , 357.

204 “ obtain technical parity”: Truman Smith, “An American Estimate of the German Air Force” (Nov. 1, 1937), Airpower Historian , April 1963, in Truman Smith 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.

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