One can evade a danger that one recognizes,' wrote historian Friedrich Zipfel, 'but a police working in the dark becomes uncanny. Nowhere does one feel safe from it. While not omnipresent, it could ap...
Of the four men in Preston Prichard’s cabin, D-90, only one survived, his friend Arthur Gadsden. Prichard’s body was never recovered, yet in the red volume that now contains the beautifully archived r...
Nowhere have I had such lovely friends as in Germany, she wrote. Looking back on it all is like seeing someone you love go mad—and do horrible things.
No realm was too petty: The Ministry of Posts ruled that henceforth when trying to spell a word over the telephone a caller could no longer say D as in David, because David was a Jewish name. The call...
Neurath saw himself as a sobering force in the government and believed he could help control Hitler and his party. As one peer put it, He was trying to train the Nazis and turn them into really servic...
Messersmith wrote. We must keep in mind, I believe, that when Hitler says anything he for the moment convinces himself that it is true. He is basically sincere; but he is at the same time a fanatic. M...
Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir ine’s blood.
Lusitania, after a Roman province on the Iberian Peninsula that occupied roughly the same ground as modern-day Portugal. The inhabitants were warlike, and the Romans conquered them with great difficul...
Klemperer detected a certain hysteria of language in the new flood of decrees, alarms, and intimidation—This perpetual threatening with the death penalty!—and in strange, inexplicable episodes of para...
Its 300 stokers, trimmers, and firemen, working 100 per shift, would shovel 1,000 tons of coal a day into its 192 furnaces to heat its 25 boilers and generate enough superheated steam to spin the imme...
It instructed Germany’s ambassador in Mexico to offer Mexican president Venustiano Carranza an alliance, to take effect if the new submarine campaign drew America into the war. Make war together, Zimm...
It had swept him, he said, into a dream from which I did not recover for months.
In traveling about the city that day, Dodd was struck anew by the extraordinary German penchant for Christmas display. He saw Christmas trees everywhere, in every public square and every window. One m...
In part, he knew, this happiness was fostered by German law, which forbade cruelty to animals and punished violators with prison, and here Dodd found deepest irony. At a time when hundreds of men have...
In laying out Central Park we determined to think of no result to be realized in less than forty years.
I find it all infinitely sad, but at the same time so entrancing, that I often feel as if it would be the part of wisdom to fly at once to the woods or mountains where one can always find peace. - Dor...
However, in a later interview, housed in the archives of the Imperial War Museum, London, Beesly was less judicious. As an Englishman and a lover of the Royal Navy, he said, I would prefer to attribut...
Her place already was luxurious, with a bowling alley where the pins were bottles of chilled champagne,
He signed the letter: George Washington Gale Ferris.
He praised Hitler as the man who has pulled his people from moral and economic despair into the state of pride and evident prosperity they now enjoyed. He particularly admired the Nazi Strength throug...