The authorities forbid the display of rolls, pastries, white bread, or fruit in shop windows. But why do they permit such loud promotion of cafés? Why, it’s the same thing! We understand that these joints and brothels will not disappear, for as long as these authorities are in power they have to take care of their business. Hence, we cannot insist on their closing [. . .]. But why are there no Judenrat taxes on consumption, on sitting [in cafés], on music, on [. . .] sumptuous meals?
[80] Besides, the existence of such establishments—aside from Arizona and the quasi-brothels—is not a bad thing itself. The point is that such establishments should exist not only for feasting and drinking, not only for snobs and idlers, not only for smugglers and speculators, but also for workingmen, for clerks, for employed intelligentsia, and for the proletariat. Their luxuriousness and high prices, their atmosphere and their catering of the riff-raff, make these establishments unavailable to the [social] strata listed above.
ARG I 661 b (Ring. I/50).
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