Munich Playground Quotes

“The word “bastard” is restricted by the Nazis to describing a child whose parents, although married, are of two different races.”
― Ernest R. Pope, Munich Playground:

“Unless the expectant mother has a transmittable disease or is physically unable to bear children, she is forced by Third Reich laws to have the baby.”
― Ernest R. Pope, Munich Playground:

“*They do, crowding together like cattle in farmhouses rented by the Reich Labor Front for the night. The only difference is that animals don’t get drunk (footnote in original).”
― Ernest R. Pope, Munich Playground:

“Munichers agree with Shakespeare that “fat men, sleek men, men that sleep o’ nights” are much more preferable than men with the “lean and hungry look” of Cassius and Goebbels.”
― Ernest R. Pope, Munich Playground:

“Both started at the same time from the left corner of Goebbels’ mouth. But, when the faster fly arrived at the right corner, his slower competitor was already there. “How in the world did you get here ahead of me?” asked the astonished fly, who had been sure of victory. “That was easy—I took the short cut around the back of Goebbels’ head!”
― Ernest R. Pope, Munich Playground:

“Hermann Göring sticks boars in the Bavarian Forest”
― Ernest R. Pope, Munich Playground:

“Came November. A special edition of Streicher’s Stürmer, posted on every prominent street corner, castigated Jewish doctors and brought threats of impending Reich action to wipe out the non-Aryan medical profession.”
― Ernest R. Pope, Munich Playground:

“In 1932, Fritz had a large practice and drove a respectable automobile. In 1937, he was reduced to pedaling thirty miles daily, winter and summer, on an antiquated lady’s bicycle to make the rounds of a few sick patients in the poorest sections of town.”
― Ernest R. Pope, Munich Playground: