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Germans at the Wheel<br />
15. See Ulrich Kubisch, Das Automobil als Lesestoff: Zur Geschichte der deutschen<br />
Motorpresse, 1898–1998 (Berlin: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz,<br />
1998).<br />
16. The criticism is recounted in Louis Betz, Automobilia: Zeitgemäß-unzeitgemäße<br />
Betrachtungen über den Automobilismus (Berlin: Verlag Ernst E. Rulf, 1928), p. 3.<br />
17. Owen John, Autocarbiography (London: Iliffe and Sons, 1927), p. 8.<br />
18. Schütz and Gruber, Mythos Reichsautobahn, pp. 145–58; Erhard Schütz, “‘eine<br />
glückliche Zeitlosigkeit . . .’: Zeitreise zu den ‘Straßen des Führers’,” in Peter J. Brenner<br />
(ed.), Reisekultur in Deutschland: Von der Weimarer Republik zum ‘Dritten Reich’<br />
(Tübingen: Max Niemeyer-Verlag, 1997), pp. 73–99.<br />
19. Victor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933–1941 (New<br />
York: Random House, 1998), pp. 165, 193.<br />
20. See Lackey, RoadFrames, ch. 4.<br />
21. Heinrich Hauser, Friede mit Maschinen (Leipzig: Verlag von Philipp Reclam jun.,<br />
1928).<br />
22. Heinrich Hauser, Opel: Ein deutsches Tor zur Welt (Frankfurt a/M: Verlag Hauserpresse,<br />
1937).<br />
23. Heinrich Hauser, The German Talks Back (New York: Henry Holt, 1945).<br />
24. See Michael Ermarth, “The German Talks Back: Heinrich Hauser and German<br />
Attitudes toward Americanization after World War II,” in Michael Ermarth (ed.), America<br />
and the Shaping of German Society, 1945–1955 (Providence, RI: Berg, 1993), pp. 107–9.<br />
25. Heinrich Hauser, “Autowandern, eine wachsende Bewegung,” Die Straße 3, 14<br />
(1936), pp. 455–7.<br />
26. See the unsigned article, “Gedanken auf Reichsautobahn,” Allgemeine Automobil<br />
Zeitung 37, 21 (1937), p. 652; Stephen Spender, European Witness (New York: Reynal and<br />
Hitchcock, 1946), p. 145.<br />
27. Hauser, “Autowandern,” p. 455.<br />
28. References to flying and airplanes were frequent among automotive writers,<br />
suggesting close linkages to the culture of “airmindedness” in the 1930s, as discussed in<br />
Peter Fritzsche, A Nation of Flyers: German Aviation and the Popular Imagination<br />
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992), ch. 5.<br />
29. Hauser, “Autowandern.”<br />
30. Ibid.<br />
31. George R. Stewart, U.S. 40: Cross Section of the United States of America (Boston,<br />
MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1953), p. 29.<br />
32. Otto Julius Bierbaum, Reisegeschichten (Munich and Leipzig: Georg Müller, 1906),<br />
pp. 244–5.<br />
33. See Merki, “Die ‘Auto-Wildlinge’,” for numerous examples.<br />
34. Schütz, “‘eine glückliche Zeitlosigkeit’,” pp. 81, 84–5; on the American camping<br />
movement, see Warren James Belasco, Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel,<br />
1910–1945 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1979); Roger B. White, Home on the Road: The<br />
Motor Home in America (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000).<br />
35. Hauser, “Autowandern,” p. 455.<br />
36. See Rudy Koshar, German Travel Cultures (Oxford: Berg, 2000), pp. 65–6, 97–113.<br />
37. On Kraft durch Freude: Hasso Spode, “Arbeiterurlaub im Dritten Reich.” in Carola<br />
Sachse, Tilla Siegel, Hasso Spode, and Wolfgang Spohn (eds) Angst, Belohnung, Zucht und<br />
Ordnung: Herrschaftsmechanismen im Nationalsozialismus (Opladen: Westdeutscher<br />
Verlag, 1982); Shelly Baranowski, “Strength through Joy: Tourism and National Integration<br />
in the Third Reich,” in Shelly Baranowski and Ellen Furlough (eds), Being Elsewhere:<br />
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