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24. ibid., p. 66.
25. ibid., pp. 108–9, 120–22.
26. tNa, FO 371/16721, p. 179.
27. BdFa, series F, vol. 44, p. 143.
28. ibid., p. 139. the words within single quotation marks are from Mein Kampf.
recent research by Götz aly and timothy snyder has borne out the accuracy of
rumbold’s prophecy of the nexus between Nazi racism and Nazi expansionism.
29. BdFa, series F, vol. 44, pp. 140, 142.
30. ibid., p. 172.
31. ibid., p. 173.
32. ibid., p. 142; Gilbert, Sir Horace Rumbold, p. 383.
33. BdFa, series F, vol. 44, pp. 216–18. see also p. 177 for rumbold’s comment
on the “strain of hooliganism.”
34. Johnson, Our Man in Berlin, p. 10.
35. BdFa, series F, vol. 44, p. xix.
36. For a discussion of Phipps’s flirtation with appeasement, see Kershaw, Making
Friends, pp. 44–46; and Johnson, Sir Eric Phipps, the British Government. to be precise,
Johnson argues that Phipps was not an anti-appeaser. For more details on Phipps’s
biography prior to his arrival in Berlin, see Jaroch, Too Much Wit? pp. 25–37.
37. BdFa, series F, vol. 44, p. 406.
38. Johnson, Our Man in Berlin, p. 64.
39. BdFa, series F, vol. 44, pp. 345–46.
40. tNa, FO 371/16712, pp. 45–46.
41. BdFa, series F, vol. 45, pp. 378, 380, 385.
42. BdFa, series F, vol. 46, pp. 395, 398.
43. ibid., p. 403.
44. BdFa, series F, vol. 45, pp. 177–78.
45. ibid., pp. 197, 226–28, 235.
46. see, for example, Barkai, From Boycott to Annihilation, p. 54; Benz, Die Juden
in Deutschland, p. 292.
47. BdFa, series F, vol. 46, pp. 150–51.
48. ibid., p. 276.
49. ibid., p. 246.
50. ibid., p. 249.
51. the measures applicable to the Jews drew a distinction between citizens who
were “entitled to full political and civic rights” and subjects, most notably Jews,
who were not. in addition, the law for the defense of German Blood and Honor
prohibited sexual contact (including marriage) between aryans and Jews. Finally,
Jews were prohibited from employing any aryan woman under the age of forty-five
as a domestic servant. see Friedländer, Nazi Germany, vol. i, pp. 142–44.
52. BdFa, series F, vol. 46, p. 325.
53. ibid., p. 273.
54. BdFa, series F, vol. 47, p. 385.
55. ibid., p. 252.
56. On Foley’s career, see smith, Foley, and Paldiel, Diplomat Heroes.
57. tNa, FO 371/18861, pp. 169–76.