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Hobbing, 1927).
3. Ibid., pp. 89ff. Batty, House of Krupp , p. 49.
4. Batty, House of Krupp , p. 59.
5. Ibid., p. 61.
6. Ibid., p. 64.
7. For the context of this arms race, see Jonathan A. Grant, Rulers, Guns and Money: The Global Arms Race in the Age of Imperialism (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007). Grant looks systematically at Krupp’s dealings with Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, Romania, South America, Japan, Serbia, and Greece.
8. See, for example, Krupp Archive, Essen: WA 7f/886, “Notic Beziehungen zur Turkei,” quoted in Grant, Rulers , p. 28. Batty, House of Krupp , p. 71.
9. Willi A. Boelcke, ed., Krupp und die Hohenzollern in Dokumenten (Frankfurt am Main: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1970), for correspondence between Krupp and Bismarck.
10. Batty, House of Krupp , p. 72.
11. Ibid., p. 77.
12. Volker R. Berghahn, Der Tirptiz-Plan: Genesis und Verfall einer innenpolitischen Krisenstrategie unter Wilhelm II (Düsseldorf: Droste, 1971), pp. 227ff. See also Gary E. Weir, Building the Kaiser’s Navy: The Imperial Navy Office and German Industry in the Von Tirpitz Era (Shrewsbury: Airlite, 1992), passim.
13. Batty, House of Krupp , p. 82.
14. Ibid., p. 83.
15. Peter Gay, Schnitzler’s Century: The Making of Middle Class Culture, 1815–1914 (London: Allen Lane, Penguin Press, 2001), p. 7.
16. Batty, House of Krupp , p. 93.
17. Ibid., p. 95.
18. For the appearance of Villa Hügel, see Bernt Engelmann, Krupp: Legenden und Wirklichkeit (Munich: Schneckluth, 1969), pp. 208–209. This is a somewhat irreverent book.
19. St. John C. Nixon, The Antique Automobile (London: Cassell, 1956), p. 25. David Scott-Moncrieff, with St. John Nixon and Clarence Paget, Three-Pointed Star: The Story of Mercedes-Benz Cars and Their Racing Successes (London: Cassell, 1955), pp. 3–19.
20. Nixon, Antique Automobile, p. 29.
21. Ibid., p. 33.
22. Scott-Moncrieff, Three-Pointed Star , pp. 20–56.
23. Nixon, Antique Automobile , p. 35.
24. Scott-Moncrieff, Three-Pointed Star , pp. 120–149.
25. Of course, the later history of Daimler-Benz was not without controversy. See Neil Gregor, Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich (New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 1998). For Maybach, see Scott-Moncrieff, Three-Pointed Star , pp. 59ff.
26. For a discussion of German engineers and their social position, see Donald E. Thomas Jr., Diesel: Technology and Society in Industrial Germany (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1987), pp. 38ff.
27. Eugen Diesel, Diesel: Der Mensch, das Werk, das Schicksal (Hamburg: Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, 1934), p. 88.
28. Thomas, Diesel, pp. 68ff.
29. Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann, ed., Walther Rathenau, Industrialist, Banker, Intellectual and Politician: Notes and Diaries , 1907–1922 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985), p. 1.
30. Ibid., p. 4.
31. Christian Schölzel, Walther Rathenau: Eine Biographie (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2004), p. 28.
32. Pogge von Strandmann, Walther Rathenau , p. 14.
33. Schölzel, Walther Rathenau , pp. 213ff.
34. Ibid., pp. 81ff.
35. Pogge von Strandmann, Walther Rathenau , pp. 16 and 88, and more generally the diary entries for 1911–1914.
36. For details of Rathenau’s view of economic policy, see Walther Rathenau—Gesamtausgabe , ed. Hans Dieter Hellige and Ernst Schulin. 6 vols. (Munich: G. Müller, 1977–2006).
37. Pogge von Strandmann, Walther Rathenau , p. 18. James Joll, in one of three essays on intellectuals in politics, says that the inner contradictions of Germany were mirrored in Rathenau’s own nature. James Joll, Intellectuals in Politics: Three Biographical Essays (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1960), p. 70.
    C HAPTER 20: T HE D YNAMICS OF D ISEASE : V IRCHOW , K OCH , M ENDEL , F REUD
     
1. New Dictionary of Scientific Biography , 7, pp. 157–161.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. For this side of Virchow, see for example, Rudolf Virchow, Das Gräberfeld von Koban in Lande der Osseten Kaukasus: Eine vergleichend-archäologische Studie (Berlin: A. Asher, 1883).
5. For the relationship between Virchow and Koch, see Frank Ryan, Tuberculosis: The Greatest Story Never Told (Bromsgrove: Swift Publishing, 1992), pp. 9f. Bernhard Möllers, Robert Koch: Persönlichkeit und Lebenswerk, 1843–1910 (Hanover: Schmorl & von Seefeld, 1950), chap. 4, pp. 93–120.
6. Dictionary of Scientific Biography , VII, pp. 420–435.
7. For Henle, see Ragnhild Münch, Robert Koch und sein Nachlass in Berlin (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2003), p. 7.