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Anonymous. A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City. New York: Picator, 2005. Intro. by Antony Beevor (xiii-xxi) plus 34-71.

Döblin, Alfred. Berlin Alexanderplatz. Trans. Eugene Jolas. New York: Continuum, 1992. 50-57, 153-61, 216-22.

Fontane, Theodor. Jenny Treibel. Trans. Ulf Zimmermann. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1976. 207 pp.

Friedrich, Ruth Andreas. Battleground Berlin. Diaries 1945-1948. New York: Paragon, 1990. 226-56.

Gay, Peter. My German Question: Growing Up In Nazi Berlin. New Haven: Yale University Press. 111-54.

Kracauer, Siegfried. The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. “Cult of Distraction” (323-28) and “Farewell to the Linden Arcade” (337-44).
German PDFs: Kult, Linden
English PDFs: Cult, Farewell

Roth, Joseph. Joseph Roth in Berlin: Ein Lesebuch für Spaziergänger. Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1996.
“Spaziergang” (23-27)
“Nächte in Kaschemmen” (53-61)
“Bei den Heimatslosen” (63-68)
“Bekenntnis zum Gleisdreieck” (105-8)
“Wolkenkratzer” (111-14)
“Das ganz grosse Warenhaus” (119-23)
“Der Kurfürstendamm” (147-50)
“Berliner Vergnuegungsindustrie” (171-75)

Roth, Joseph. What I Saw in Berlin: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003.
“Going for a Walk” (23-27)
“Night in Dives” (53-61)
“With the Homeless” (63-68)
“Affirmation of the Triangular Railway Junction” (105-8)
“Skyscrapers” (111-14)
“The Very Large Department Store” (119-23)
“The Kurfürstendamm” (147-50)
“The Berlin Pleasure Industry” (171-75)

Speer, Albert. Inside the Third Reich. New York: Macmillan, 1970. 86-91, 158-70, 181-92.
German PDFs: Kapitel 6, Kapitel 10, Kapitel 11
English PDFs: Chapter 6, Chapter 10, Chapter 11