181 “stone-grey corpse”: Quote by George Grosz in Hanser, Putsch, 253.
181 “beggars, whores”: Sahl, Memoiren, 36-37 quoted in Ian Buruma, “Weimar Faces,” New York Review of Books, November 2, 2006.
183 The previous month: Stresemann, Diaries, Letters and Papers, 145-47.
183 “living on the edge”: Schacht, My First Seventy-six Years, 177.
184 “hindered by personal considerations”: Schacht, My First Seventy-Six Years,177.
184 “narrow Prussian”: Schacht, My First Seventy-six Years, 120.
185 “an enthusiasm suitable”: Feldman, The Great Disorder, 793.
185 Schacht was as skeptical: Schacht, The Stabilization of the Mark, 79, and Feldman, The Great Disorder, 751.
187 “He sat on his chair”: Schacht, My First Seventy-six Years, 187.
187-188 “father of the inflation”: “Stinnes Would Oust Head of Reichsbank,” New York Times, November 13, 1923.
188 “preserve his honor”: Feldman, The Great Disorder, 715.
189 “astonishing appeasement”: d’Abernon, The Diary of an Ambassador, 2: 283.
190 “he always had good luck”: Feldman, The Great Disorder, 822.
190 On November 20: “Herr Havenstein Dead,” Times, November 21, 1923.
190 “an extraordinarily sympathetic personality”: Max Warburg Papers, Unpublished Memoirs, 1923, 69, quoted in Feldman, The Great Disorder, 795.
190 During the war: Feldman, The Great Disorder, 74.
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194 “Be extremely subtle”: Sun Tzu quote from Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 83.
194 “a tall man with a pointed grayish beard” “I want to get on”: Schacht, My First Seventy-six Years, 194.
194 Decorated in a neoclassical: “The Governor of The Bank of England,” Strand Magazine, April 1939.
196 “quiet, modest”: Bank of England, letter from Norman to Strong, October 28, 1921.
196 “You know, of course”: Bank of England, letter from Norman to Strong, January 7, 1924.
197 “entertainments,” “sad fate”: d’Abernon, The Diary of an Ambassador, 2: 122-23.
198 “Hell and Maria”: “The Committees,” Time, January 7, 1924.
199 “hollow deep-set eyes”: Klingaman, 1929: The Year of the Crash, 95.
201 “both the element of novelty”: Dawes, The Dawes Plan in the Making, 34-35.
202 “those foul and carrion-loving,” “impenetrable and colossal”: “Whirlwind Diplomacy: How Dawes Plays Game,” New York Times, January 27, 1924.
202 Through a combination of charm: Schuker, End of French Predominance, 284.
203 in 1922, an audit: Brogan, France Under the Republic, 517.
203 $150 million of National Defense Bonds: Shirer, The Collapse of the Third Republic, 161.