When I cited statistics on live weight crammed into the elevator, on the previous pages, the first, most impressive numbers belong to my new friends. I repeatedly wrote about the method of determining the amount of alcohol drunk by the person: any kind of alcoholic beverages by simple mathematical operations is equal to 96° alcohol and is divided by the weight of the human body. So go now and compete with them for they already have a head start of at least 30 %. I was once again asked to tell about the beer putsch of 1923 (8–9 November). Although, 16 people were killed, the authorities graciously treated Hitler and his supporters. They imprisoned them for only nine months, but were able to do away with fascism. He could rot in prison as a dangerous political criminal, he could be expelled from Germany as an undesirable alien, with no permission to return. The history of German Nazism would have been over at that point, as the government could have easily suppressed it…
I told them about another famous visitor of Hofbräuhaus, living for months in the rooms of this building, and also a big fan of local beer. His name was no less famous – Karl Marx – the founder of Marxism. His friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels, as a more rich and wealthy man, was tolerant to the whims of his colleague. When visiting the Bavarian capital, he paid debts and prolonged the residence of his friend in the then existing rooms of the famous building.
Our prolonged lunch could gradually develop into a dinner, but no energy was left to sit at the table. We still planned to go shopping for the guests, leaving in two days, who wanted to buy gifts for the loved ones. If you walk across from the pub literally three hundred metres, you will reach the Maximilianstrasse, the most luxurious and expensive (according to prices in brand stores) street of the city. And my companions did not need another one.
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