1933

Philip Metcalfe

• Publisher: The Permanent Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9780932966872
• eBook ISBN: 9781504033602
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: German History
• Index: History

"Using letters, diaries, and memoirs, Metcalfe distills the personalities, viewpoints, and day-to-day reactions of five alert and often directly involved witnesses to Hitler's consolidation of power. They are: U.S. Ambassador to Germany, William Dodd, and his high-spirited daughter, Martha; Bella Fromm, a glamorous German society columnist who was Jewish and made no secret of it; Ernest Hanfstaengl, Hitler's somewhat buffoonish foreign-press chief; and Rudolf Diels, the first head of the Gestapo." — Publishers Weekly

NOTES AND SOURCES

Martha and Her Father

10“Of course, I was surprised”: Chicago Herald-Examiner, June 12, 1933.

10“I am sure they will not”: Dodd, Diary, 3.

10“Don’t take your household things”: Dodd, Embassy Eyes, 15.

10“Suppose I cannot write over there?”: ibid., 13.

12“Well, you won’t need”: ibid., 14–15.

13Dodd’s first teaching position: Dallek, Dodd, 27.

15Dodd’s lecture style: Henry Steele Commager to author, Dec. 5, 1981.

15“You speak German”: “Ambassador Extraordinary,” Survey Graphic, July 1938.

16“The German authorities”: Dodd, Diary, 5.

16luxury loving envoys: Chic. Daily News, Apr. 25, 1932.

16“You are quite right”: Dodd, Diary, 5.

17“Find out what this man Hitler is made of”: Dodd, Embassy Eyes, 16–17.

17“Watch your step”: “William E. Dodd As Statesman: Address of Charles E. Merriam,” University of Chicago Magazine, May 1940.

17German consulate’s report: T-120, reel 5139, fr. K317497-98.

19“As he takes up his work”: NY Times, July 6, 1933.

19the Jewish Rothschilds: “Ich bin William Eduard Dodd”: newspaper clipping, 1934–D, Box 43, Dodd papers.

20George A. Gordon: Memoir Notes, vol. 1, #1956, Messersmith papers; also Burke, “American Diplomats”, 85–87.

20“Immigrants are the salt”: Fromm, Banquets, 120.

22“We were at the beginning”: Dodd, Diary, 12.

22“Oh, I thought”: Dodd, Embassy Eyes, 22.

First Impressions

23“So now they have arrived”: Writings File: Carl Sandburg, Restricted Material, Dodd papers.

24the American mission in Berlin: Dallek, Dodd, 197.

25an “appointed Ambassador”: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1933, vol. 2, 383.

25“Herr Ober”: Reynolds, Quentin, 107.

26Germany that August: Hauser, Time Was, 253–54.

26“I Have Offered Myself”: Dodd, Embassy Eyes, 28.

26Betti Suess: Dodd, Embassy Eyes, 28–29; Reynolds, Quentin, 122–23; Ldn Times, Aug. 25, 1933; NY Times, Aug. 19, 1933.

27Foreign Ministry apologizes: ibid., 32; also T-120, reel 5674, fr. L521959.

27Betti Suess in mental asylum: NY Times, Sept. 4, 1933.

28the Warburg villa: “Mrs. Martha Dodd die Gattin des amerikanischen Botschafters,” item 202, Box 50, Welles papers; Dodd, Embassy Eyes, 33–34; Mrs. Dodd to Bessie Pierce, Aug. 14, 1933, Folder 5, Box 2, Pierce papers.

30“You see”: Dodd, Embassy Eyes, 38.

31description of the “Flying Circus”: “A Night With The Circus,” Apr. 7, 1933, British Embassy, Berlin, FO 371/16722 4530, Public Record Office.

32the flapper: Fass, The Damned, chapters 6–7.

34“Hitler needs a woman”: Dodd, Embassy Eyes, 63.

Putzi Hanfstaengl

37“Putzi, eat this now”: Hanfstaengl, Unheard, 25.

38Edgar Hanfstaengl: Egon Hanfstaengl letter to author, Apr. 23, 1981.

41“I am sure”: Hanfstaengl, Unheard, 38.

41“He was respectful”: ibid., 40.

41“I felt quite embarrassed”: ibid., 44.

41Frau Else Bruckmann: Schirach, Ich glaubte, 31.

42“Putzi, I tell you”: Hanfstaengl, Unheard, 54.

42“You must play”: “I Was Hitler’s Closest Friend,” Cosmopolitan, n. d...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Martha and Her Father
• First Impressions
• Putzi Hanfstaengl
• Chief of the Foreign Press
• Bella Fromm
• Eminence in Field Gray
• Rudolf Diels
• Boycott
• The Foreign Press
• No. 8 Prinz Albrecht Strasse
• Summer Violence
• An Embattled Ambassador
• Putzi in Uniform
• Suicide
• Beaus
• Beating Stations
• Flight
• Christmas Amnesty
• Putzi in the USA
• Mutiny
• Murder
• Expulsion
• Epilogue
• Notes and Sources
• Bibliography
• Name Index
• Acknowledgments
• Copyright Page