The World of Yesterday

by Stefan Zweig

that as an Austrian, a Jew, an author, a humanist, and a pacifist, I have always stood at the exact point where these earthquakes were the most violent.

As Austrian Jew humanist always center of earthquakes

the Golden Age of Security. Everything in our almost thousand-year-old Austrian monarchy seemed based on permanency, and the State itself was the chief guarantor of this stability.

Austria Golden age of security before WW1

my wife,

words "my wife" appear for first time on page 309

most of the participants wore the prescribed insignia of unity only outwardly on their jacket collar in order not to jeopardize their jobs, but that at the same time they had long since prudently registered with the National Socialists in Munich.

Two faced - Austrian patriots quietly also registered with Bavarian National Socialists across the border

I knew that the same voices which yelled “Heil Schuschnigg”

same voices that said Heil Schuschnigg would yell Heil Hitler tomorrow

Chess. A Novella

Chess: A Novella

The Royal Game

Royal Game