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249 “ stolid, not overly” to “ at all times friendly”: Ibid., 54.

249 “ Heil Hitler”: Ibid., 37.

250 “ … however greatly”: Ibid., 11.

250 “ Beneath the propaganda”: Ibid., 10.

250 “ It was Al”: Katharine Smith memoir, Truman Smith Papers, boxes 4 and 6, Hoover.

250 “ I like to think”: Wedemeyer, 60.

250 “ I had been disillusioned”: Ibid., 61.

251 “ When I reported” to “ I don’t want to sound like”: Memorandum to Colonel Eiler, Albert C. Wedemeyer Papers, box 6, folder 35, Hoover.

252 “ A brief calendar”: Mowrer, Germany Puts the Clock Back , 250.

252 “ an awesome sight”: Beam, unpublished manuscript.

252 “ many methods” and budget request: Manfred Jonas, The United States and Germany: A Diplomatic History , 233.

252 “ his eyes aglow”: Hooker, ed., 232.

252 “ George, I wonder” and rest of Messersmith-Moffat exchange: Jesse H. Stiller, George S. Messersmith: Diplomat of Democracy , 135.

253 On April 14: Jonas, 234.

253 “ could advantageously bend”: Hooker, ed., 220.

254 “ the undisputed dean” and other quotes from Cosmopolitan , April and May 1939 issues: Wiegand Papers, box 31, Hoover.

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256 “ I sat for four hours” and other Lochner quotes from letters: “Round Robins from Berlin,” Wisconsin Magazine of History , Summer 1967.

257 The reports by Truman Smith: Joseph C. Harsch, Pattern of Conquest , 41.

257 By early summer: Hooker, ed., The Moffat Papers , 251.

257 “ Optimistic Poles”: H. R. Knickerbocker, Is Tomorrow Hitler’s? 200 Questions on the Battle of Mankind , 29.

257 “ The Polish ambassador”: Hooker, ed., 249.

258 “ the death of”: John Gunther, Inside Europe , xxviii.

258 “ There is a chance”: Ibid., xxii.

258 “ John fairly optimistic”: Shirer, Berlin Diary , 170.

258 “ looked clean” and exchange with Captain D: Ibid., 171.

259 “ How completely isolated,” German headlines, “ For perverse” and “ Struck by”: Ibid., 172–173.

259 “ completely Nazified”: Ibid., 174.

259 “ this powder-keg” and rest of Gdynia broadcast: Shirer, “ This Is Berlin ,” 53.

259 “ We’re ready” and Warsaw visit entries: Shirer, Berlin Diary , 176–178.

260 “ bombshell” and “ There is no doubt” and odds of war: Hooker, ed., 250–251.

260 “ It goes much further” and scene in Die Taverne: Shirer, Berlin Diary , 180–181.

261 “ The people in the streets”: Ibid., 183.

261 “ From about the middle” and other Beam recollections: Beam, unpublished manuscript.

262 “ something was going to” and rest of Thuermer account: Thuermer interviewed by author (2009).

263 “ The excitement of” and rest of William Russell’s account of August 31: William Russell, Berlin Embassy , 5–29.

265 Józef Lipski and his story: Beam, unpublished memoir.

265 “ I have once more”: Ibid.

265 “ a curious strain” and rest of Shirer’s account of Sept. 1–2: Shirer, Berlin Diary , 197–199.

266 “ After, say, about 1 A.M. ”: Shirer, “ This Is Berlin ,” 71.

266 “ One expected”: Russell, 31.

266 “ The people I have met”: Ibid., 33–34.

267 “ It begins to” and rest of Shirer’s initial war diary entries: Shirer, Berlin Diary , 204–207.

267 “ The war is raging”: Russell, 38.

267 “ Drove all day” and rest of Shirer account of Baltic coast fighting: Shirer, Berlin Diary , 212–214.

268 Joseph Grigg and his account, including Hitler at Warsaw airport: Frederick Oechsner, This Is the Enemy , 143–151.

268 The AP’s Lochner and stories from Poland: Louis Lochner, What About Germany? , 124–125.

269 “ that Germany is invincible” and “ I hope”: Russell, 51.

269 “ follow me blindly” and exchange with maid: Schultz, Germany Will Try It Again , 186–187.

270 “ squeals and shouts” and rest of reactions to newsreels and massacres: Ibid., 187–189.

270 “ Now go to Berlin,” getting to Berlin and early days there: Joseph C. Harsch, At the Hinge of History, A Reporter’s Story , 38–43.

272 “ pretty awful” and “ I was an American”: Hottelet interviewed by author (2009).

272 “ The troops seemed”: Shirer, Berlin Diary , 234.

272 “ in the vain hope”: Russell, 128.

273 “ the hope of” and “ It is better”: Otto D. Tolischus, They Wanted War , 199.

273 “ One Breslau daily” and rest of Oct. 8 letter: Louis Lochner, “Round Robins from Berlin,” Wisconsin Magazine of History , Summer 1967.

273 “ In the darkness”: Russell, 53.

273 “ the groping”: George F. Kennan, Memoirs: 1925–1950 , 107.

274 “ Shan’t we go” and rest of encounter with streetwalker: Ibid., 109–112.

274 At the Soviet Embassy’s and exchange between American correspondents and Goering: Shirer, Berlin Diary , 245–246.

275 According to the joke: Harsch, Pattern of Conquest , 59.

275 Russell estimated: Russell, 75.

275 “ If the United States”: Ibid., 90–91.

275 “ It was hard”: Kennan, 112.

276 “ the most intelligent”: Shirer, Berlin Diary , 284.

276 “ isolated on our island”: Russell, 84.

276 goods displayed : Ibid., 101.

276 “ A hundred or so” and Oechsner dinner: Shirer, Berlin Diary , 252.

277 “ embarrassingly large” and follow-up: Russell, 49–50.

277 In January 1940: Ibid., 128.

277 “ unmistakable inner detachment”: Kennan, 108–109.

277 “ But here Germany was”: Russell, 129.

278 two tin bathtubs : Ibid., 131–132.

278 “I never expected” and rest of Jane Dyer episode: Ibid., 142.

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279 “ We had not” and rest of Russell departure from Germany: Russell, 203–208.

280 “ The last thing”: Harsch, At the Hinge of History , 47.

281 “ Only one thing”: Sumner Welles, The Time for Decision , 77.

281 Arriving on the morning and rest of Welles visit: Ibid., 90–109.

283 “ my uncompromising” and account of Mooney mission: Lochner, Always the Unexpected, 262–272.

284 “ I was stunned”: Shirer, Berlin Diary , 312.

284 “ I never dreamed”: Harsch, At the Hinge of History , 48.

284 Broadcasting from Berlin: Shirer, “ This Is Berlin ,” 246–247.

284 “ Hitler is sowing”: Shirer, Berlin Diary , 317.

285 “ the German steamroller”: Ibid., 335.

285 “ It’s been dream” and other Lochner quotes from Belgium: Lochner, “The Blitzkrieg in Belgium: A Newsman’s Eyewitness Account,” Wisconsin Magazine of History , Summer 1967.