The German Genius

     
     

* After the burning of the Reichstag, the premises of the Kroll Opera were used for the Parliament.
     
     

† Although jazz was banned inside Germany, swing was allowed in propaganda broadcasts to other nations, to attract listeners. There was also a “Propaganda Cabaret,” led by Lutz Templin. In addition Göring established a small number of dance orchestras to play late-night concerts on the radio, and to go on tours.
     
     

* Its library eventually contained half a million books, all looted.
     
     

* After Carl von Ossietsky was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1936, no German was allowed to accept any of the Nobel Prizes.
     
     

* Oberländer later was made a federal minister in one of Adenauer’s cabinets.
     
     

* His controversial career falls outside the scope of this book.
     
     

* A celebrated poem is attributed to Niemöller, though he himself always said he could not remember when he had first used the famous words, which read: “In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist/And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist/And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew/And then…they came for me…And by that time there was no one left to speak up.” Niemöller was in Sachsenhausen and Dachau from 1937 to 1945 but survived. Following a meeting with Otto Hahn, he began campaigning for nuclear disarmament and in 1961 became president of the World Council of Churches.
     
     

* Which means, says John Cornwell, one in every 300 of the German medical community.
     
     

* Anthony Heilbut, Exiled in Paradise: German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America from the 1930s to the Present (University of California Press, 1983 and 1997, with a new postcript) is by far the most enjoyable book about refugees in America, beautifully written and by turns funny and moving.
     
     

* Allegedly, he asked her out, to which she replied, “I don’t go out with Nazis.”
     
     

* The Hitler Emigrés , 2002, a book as enjoyable for its rich footnotes as for its text. I have relied heavily on Mr. Snowman’s account.
     
     

* Canetti won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981.
     
     

* The success of the American-led airlift means that, among Germans, West Berliners have generally been more supportive of the United States than have their countrymen elsewhere.
     
     

* The German phrase, “Gnade der späten Geburt,” was originally coined by Günter Gaus and had an easier reception.
     
     

* When Crawshaw visited the Georg Eckert Institute for Schoolbook Research in Braunschweig, he found the way the “vast bulk” of textbooks avoided confronting the truth “remarkable.” With these, he said, the tone changed earlier, after the Eichmann trial in 1961.