Munich enters the book through the persecution of physicist Bernard Peters, not as a fully depicted setting. It is identified as the place of a prison where Peters was held before his release, and in the name of the police authority behind orders accusing him of Communist activity. Those records place the city within a story of detention and professional exclusion, while the book warns that the charges cannot be accepted at face value.

Munich in Peters's account

At a 1949 hearing, Peters testified that after more than three terrifying months he was transferred to a prison in Munich and then released. His account gives the city a precise but limited role: it was a stage in his passage through detention, rather than a setting described through streets, buildings, or daily life. A separate report Peters wrote in New York in 1934 was titled as an account of a prisoner at Dachau concentration camp near Munich, further linking the city in the record to his experience of Nazi imprisonment.

Police orders and their consequences

A warrant issued by the State Secret Police of Munich on May 13, 1933, reportedly accused Peters of illegal Communist activity. A further police order, dated October 14, charged him with Communist activities and barred him from continuing his academic studies. The surviving details thus connect Munich not only with custody but with an official restriction that reached beyond imprisonment into Peters's scholarly life.

What the record can establish

The book treats these accusations cautiously. Peters was Jewish, and the Nazis were in power when the orders were issued; that context, the account emphasizes, gives reason to question the charges rather than treat them as neutral findings. Munich consequently functions as an administrative and carceral reference in Peters's documented history, while the available evidence does not establish the circumstances of his transfer in detail or offer a broader portrait of the city.