The Bitter Taste of Victory (74 page)

54  
‘tired feet’, ‘learned with their’, ‘democratic faith’: RW,
Greenhouse with Cyclamens II,
p. 172.

‘In Russia they’: Henry Andrews, report on Germany, 1949, RW Archive (Tulsa).

15:
Division

1  
‘world literature’, ‘naturalness’, ‘age-burdened’: TM, speech, 2 May 1949, in
Thomas Mann’s Addresses delivered at the Library of Congress
, pp. 108, 129.

‘a campaign against’: TM, diary, 19 Aug 1948, in
Tagebücher
.

2  
‘the chessboard’: Arthur Miller, cited in Saunders,
Who Paid the Piper?
, p. 56.

3  
‘used chiefly as’: Francis Biddle to TM, in
Letters of Thomas Mann
, footnote 1 on p. 576. (Note that Biddle was no longer in an official public role in the US).

‘a great number’, ‘a purely cultural’, ‘What is wrong’: TM to Francis Biddle, 14 Apr 1949, in
Letters of Thomas Mann
.

4  
‘fundamentally disinclined’: TM, press conference after Goethe lecture, cited in ‘Mann sees Soviet Bidding for Peace’,
The New York Times
, 6 May 1949.

5  
For reviews of
Doctor Faustus,
see Hellmut Jaesrich, ‘Dr Faustus in Amerika’,
Der Monat
, January 1949.

6  
‘Post Hitlerian Germany’: EM, ‘Occupation – Trial or Error’ (lecture), Oct 1948, EM Archive.

‘natural, that is’: Bruno Walter, cited in Katia Mann to KM, 22 Nov 1948, KM Archive.

7  
‘I AM good’: KM to EM and Katia Mann, 25 Aug 1948, KM Archive.

‘thinking of death’: KM, diary, 30 Sep 1948, KM Archive.

8  
‘without any obligations’: KM,
The Last Day
, Manuscript, chapter 10, KM Archive.

‘They talk about’: KM,
The Last Day
, chapter 1.

9  
‘at once capricious’, ‘dirt and blood’: KM,
The Last Day
, chapter 13, chapter 18.

10  
Lure of death: KM,
The Last Day
, chapter 15.

11  
‘the taste of’: KM,
The Last Day
, chapter 19.

12  
‘the issue of’, ‘more tedious and’: cited in Weiss,
In the Shadow
, p. 236.

‘Not writing, but’: KM, diary, 25 Apr 1949, KM Archive.

‘Mr Gründgens plays’: KM, diary, 1 Jan 1949, KM Archive.

13  
‘Rain . . . the weather’: KM, diary, 3 May 1949, KM Archive.‘

utmost precaution’, ‘do not slurp’: KM to EM, 4 May 1949, KM Archive.

14  
KM to Katia Mann and EM, 15 May 1949, KM Archive.

15  
‘a minor relapse’: KM, diary, 17 May 1949, KM Archive.

‘But the Germans’: TM, lecture at Jewish Wiener Library in London, 18 May 1949, in ‘Thomas Mann’s Rede in der Wiener Library’, Mitteilungsblatt des PEN-Clubs Deutscher Autoren im Ausland, Sept 1949, cited in Burgin and Mayer,
Thomas Mann: A Chronicle of His Life
, p. 225.

‘If one takes’, ‘And now’: EM to KM, 17 May 1949, EM Archive.

16  
‘doing well’, ‘all love’, ‘lovely’: KM to Katia and EM, 20 May 1949, KM Archive.

17  
‘My concern and’: TM, 22 May 1949, in
Tagebücher
.

‘It seemed more’, ‘it was going’: Katia to Heinrich Mann, 24 May 1949, in
Letters of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, 1900
–
1949
, ed. by Hans Wysling, trans. by Don Reneau (University of California Press, 1998).

18  
‘These are sad’, ‘it pains me’: TM to Heinrich Mann, 26 May 1945, in
Letters of Heinrich and Thomas Mann.

19  
‘That’s why he’: EM, quoted in TM to Hans Reisiger, 28 Jun 1949, cited in Hayman,
Thomas Mann
, p. 562.

20  
‘we killed those’: KM,
The Last Day
, chapter 15.

21  
‘bitter distortion’: TM, diary, 12 Jun 1949, in
Tagebücher
.

‘Despite the years’, ‘How am I’: EM to Pamela Wedekind, 16 Jun 1949, EM Archive.

22  
‘a nervous’: TM, diary, 21 Jun 1949, in
Tagebücher
.

23  
Decision to visit Weimar: TM, diary, 16 Jun 1949, in
Tagebücher
; in a letter to Hermann Hesse Thomas sadly acknowledged that he had played his part in Klaus’s decline: ‘my relationship to him was difficult’ (6 Jul 1949, in
Letters of Thomas Mann
).

24  
‘psychoanalytical study’: Walter Abendroth, ‘Leverkühns Musikvorstellung’,
Die Zeit,
Hamburg, 23 June 1949.

‘Feel as if going to war’: TM, diary, 23 Jul 1949, in
Tagebücher
.

25  
‘scream to the’: TM,
Doctor Faustus
, p. 184.

26  
‘a German government’: Wilhelm Pieck, cited in Norman Naimark,
The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945–1949
(Belknap Press, 1995), p. 59.

new ground blockades: ‘West Awaits Word on Soviet Actions’,
The New York Times
, 12 Jul 1949.

27  
TM, ‘Ansprache im Goethejahr’, 1949, in
Gesammelte Werke,
13 vols (Fischer, 1974), vol 11, pp. 481–97.

28  
‘symbol of our’, ‘the highest expression’: Grotewohl, cited in Brockmann,
German Literary Culture
, p. 115.

‘that star of’: Frank Thiess, ‘Der Weltdeutsche und die ‘Innere Emigration’, cited in Brockmann,
German Literary Culture,
p. 106.

‘Goethe communities’, ‘something indestructible’: Friedrich Meinecke,
The German Catastrophe: Reflections and Recollections
, trans. Sidney B. Fay (Harvard University Press, 1950), pp. 12–21

‘Goethe’s world is’: Karl Jaspers, acceptance speech for Goethe prize, Frankfurt, 1947, reprinted in ‘Our Future and Goethe’, in Karl Jaspers,
Existentialism and Humanism: Three Essays
, trans. by Hanns E Fischer (Russell F Moore, 1952).

29  
For a summary of the press reaction see Inge Jens’ footnote in TM,
Tagebücher 1949
–
1950
, pp. 434–35.

‘We
know
that’, ‘this “other Germany”’, ‘American friends’, ‘help Germany, ‘the road’: EM and KM,
The Other Germany
, pp. xii–xiii, 318.

30  
‘The city’: TM, diary, 4 Aug 1949, in
Tagebücher
.

‘To see this’: TM to Emil Preetorius, 20 Oct 1949, in
Letters of Thomas Mann
.

31  
For observations on luxury, see TM, ‘Germany Today’,
The New York Times Magazine
, 25 Sep 1949; RW, ‘Greenhouse with Cyclamens II’ in
A Train of Powder
.

‘the sight of’: TM, ‘Germany Today’.

32  
For signing name after Hitler, Himmler and Goebbels (‘whole devil’s brood’), cited in Donald Prater,
Thomas Mann: A Life
(Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 419.

‘no neutrality’: Eugen Kogon, open letter in the
Schwäbische Landeszeitung,
1 Aug 1949.

‘the terrible truth’, ‘unified Germany’, ‘free German’: see footnote to TM,
Tagebücher
, 23 Jul 1949.

33  
‘out of the present’: TM, cited in ‘Mann Cheered in Weimar’,
The New York Times
, 2 Aug 1949.

34  
Money to Herder church: TM, ‘Germany Today’.

Crowds on streets: TM to Paul Olberg, 27 Aug 1949, in
Letters of Thomas Mann
.

35  
‘to the many’: TM, diary, 6 Aug 1949, in
Tagebücher
.

36  
Announcement of new government: ‘Dr. Adenauer’s Declaration of Policy’,
The Times
, 21 Sep 1949.

‘Western Germany–’: André François-Poncet, cited in Dennis L. Bark and David R. Gress,
A History of West Germany
(2 Volumes), Vol I:
From Shadow to Substance 1945
–
1963,
(Blackwell, 1993), p. 254.

37  
‘a powerful bulwark’: Declaration by People’s Congress, 5 Oct 1949, cited in Naimark,
The Russians in Germany,
p. 59.

‘smash’, ‘until the unity’: Pieck, Inaugural speech, cited in ‘Pieck Is President As East Germans Organize Regime’,
The New York Times
, 12 Oct 1949.

38  
‘Could turn out’: TM, diary, 8 Sep 1949, in
Tagebücher
.

Erika’s skepticism: TM, diary, Sep 1949, in
Tagebücher
.

‘I seem to’: TM to Reisiger, cited in notes to diary entry on 8 Sep 1949, in
Tagebücher
.

‘moral impressions’, ‘Everything was’, ‘hapless constellation’: TM, ‘Germany Today’.

39  
TM, ‘Germany Today’.

40  
‘The fact that’, ‘He does not’: letters to
The New York Times
, 9 Oct 1949, 16 Oct 1949.

‘joy of home’: TM, diary, 19 Aug, 1949 in
Tagebücher
.

allegiance to America: Interview on Frankfurter Rundschau, 26 Jul 1949, reprinted as ‘Thomas Mann: Meine Heimat is die deutsche Sprache’, in Hansen,
Frage und Antwort
.

41  
EM’s continuing anger: TM, diary, 4 Sep 1949, in
Tagebücher
.

42  
KM, ‘Europe’s Search for a New Credo’,
Tomorrow,
8:10, Jun 1949, KM Archive.

43  
KM, ‘Die Heimsuchung des europäischen Geistes’ (Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1973) p. 132.

44  
‘a novel advocating’, ‘books don’t have’: KM,
The Last Day
, chapter 19.

‘not because’, ‘they died’, ‘this particular’, ‘irresponsible’, ‘the most’: EM, ‘Intellectuals’ (lecture), Oct 1949, EM Archive.