eBook Publication: Munich Playground

BELLEVUE, Wash. - April 30, 2013 - PRLog -- NOT SO SUPER-MEN
Dateline 1941: Hitler's forces have smashed into western Europe, defeated France, threatened England, and attacked Russia. Many people think of them as "an awe-inspiring group of ascetic, fanatic, and inhuman supermen."

Ernest R. Pope knew all too well how illusory this idea was. As senior correspondent for Reuters in Munich from 1936-1941, American Ernest Pope saw the cruel and outrageous behavior of Nazis in their native habitat. In Munich they ran wild, let their hair down, and indulged in every fantasy money and power could avail them. Pope has all the gossip...and the confirmed stories.

HISTORY AS IT HAPPENED
"I have seen the leading actors in the Nazi tragedy, playing their parts on the Bavarian stage. Long before the climax—the outbreak of the war—I knew what the denouement in Hitler's theater would be."

Pope knew, saw, and/or interviewed all the top Nazis and dozens of lower-level officials, including some of Hitler's security. He saw the Nazis for what they were: a corrupt, debauched, all-to-human menace.

For the first time, this 1941 classic is available for Kindle and Nook ereaders. It has been out of print for decades and is a book that should be read by anyone with an interest in the period.

You won't find another account like this of the Nazis in their favorite playground.

Praise for Munich Playground

"Ernie Pope was the only American correspondent in the Bavarian capital...there the Nazi lords led by Hitler relaxed...and frolicked. Mr. Pope at no little risk to himself watched them...seeing a side of Naziism that his colleagues in Berlin knew little of."
William L. Shirer
Author of Berlin Diary and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

"In Berlin the year before the war, the strange German grapevine which even then carried about all the news there was brought stories of a tall American in Munich named 'Herr Popeye.' He was said to drink with important Nazis, to tell underground jokes to Gestapo agents, to know the inside story of political corruption in Hitler's home town as a police reporter knows the rackets in a small American city. On investigation, 'Popeye' turned out to be Ernest Pope; the legend turned out to be true."
Joseph Barnes
NY Herald Tribune

"The most astonishing new book about the grisly world of the Nazis is Munich Playground by Ernest R. Pope, a bouillabaisse of strange tales and straight reporting, halfway between the classic foreign correspondent's memoirs and one of the heartier merry-go-round volumes of today. Pope...went to Munich as a freelance, soon found himself the only American correspondent there, worked for several British and almost every leading American paper at one time or another between 1936 and 1940, and became something of an institution."
Charles Poore
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