Munich Putsch Quotes

1. "The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out."
Author: Alfred Jodl

2. "3 May. Bistritz. —Left Munich at 8:35 P. M, on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible."
Author: Bram Stoker

3. "At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history."
Author: F. L. Lucas

4. "I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good."
Author: Graham Coxon

5. "There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis."
Author: Hans Haacke

6. "Of course the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible."
Author: Jim McKay

7. "After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna."
Author: Karl Von Frisch

8. "The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy."
Author: Mark Spitz

9. "At this point, I couldn't help it. I walked around to see her better, and from the moment I witnessed her face again, I could tell that this was who she loved the most. Her expression stroked the man on his face. It followed one of the lines down his cheek. He had sat in the washroom with her and taught her how to roll a cigarette. He gave bread to a dead man on Munich Street and told the girl to keep reading in the bomb shelter. Perhaps if he didn't, she might not have ended up writing in the basement. Papa - the accordionist - and Himmel Street. One could not exist without the other, because for Liesel, both were home. Yes, that's what Hans Hubermann was for Liesel Meminger."
Author: Markus Zusak

10. "Late in February, she stood on Munich Street and watched a single giant cloud come over the hills like a white monster. It climbed the mountains. The sun was eclipsed, and in its place, a white beast with a gray heart watched the town."
Author: Markus Zusak

11. "We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island."
Author: Oliver Kahn

12. "When I began my physical studies [in Munich in 1874] and sought advice from my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly...he portrayed to me physics as a highly developed, almost fully matured science...Possibly in one or another nook there would perhaps be a dust particle or a small bubble to be examined and classified, but the system as a whole stood there fairly secured, and theoretical physics approached visibly that degree of perfection which, for example, geometry has had already for centuries."
Author: Philipp Von Jolly

13. "Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach."
Author: Rachel Johnson

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