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Carl Zuckmayer was a German writer and playwright. His older brother was the pedagogue, composer, conductor and pianist Eduard Zuckmayer. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. December 1896 – 18. January 1977
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Famous Carl Zuckmayer Quotes

“Imagine that. All the men of Germany marching in step with even their wotsits hanging the same way.”

Carl Zuckmayer

Wabschke, The Captain of Köpenick Tr. Ron Hutchinson (2013)
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“Oh that music - how it goes through one”

Carl Zuckmayer

Sissi, The Captain of Köpenick Tr. Ron Hutchinson (2013)
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“I couldn't incriminate myself if I tried. And when it comes to the workings of the government I'd just as soon look away, anyway. You never know what you'll see.”

Carl Zuckmayer

Voigt, The Captain of Köpenick Tr. Ron Hutchinson (2013)
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“…Hades had opened its gates and vomited forth the basest, most despicable, most horrible demons. In the course of my life I had seen something of untrammeled human insights of horror of panic. I had taken part in a dozen battles in the First World War, had experienced barrages, gassings, going over the top. I had witnessed the turmoil of the postwar era, the crushing uprisings, street battles, meeting hall brawls. I was present among the bystanders during the Hitler Putsch in 1923 in Munich. I saw the early period of Nazi rule in Berlin. But none of this was comparable to those days in Vienna. What was unleashed upon Vienna had nothing to do with [the] seizure of power in Germany. …What was unleashed upon Vienna was a torrent of envy, jealousy, bitterness, blind, malignant craving for revenge. All better instincts were silenced… only the torpid masses had been unchained. …It was the witch's Sabbath of the mob. All that makes for human dignity was buried.”

Carl Zuckmayer

As quoted & translated by Eric R. Kandel, In Search of Memory (2006) referencing Als Wärs ein Stück von Mir (1966) see also, A Part of Myself: Portrait of an Epoch Tr. Richard and Clara Winston (1984)

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