His death by suicide is not hard to understand, in fact if one reads very carefully between the lines of the last pages of his book, he is a depressed man without a country. He used words like "tortured heart" and "tormenting clairvoyance" (419); those allusions give hints. QUESTION FOUR: My personal reflections tend to revolve around Zweig's movements and Zweig's thoughts in the years leading up to the takeover of Austria, as he could clearly see the Jewish community - and all of Europe - was in for a very rough ride. I reflect on what I believe I might have done had I been in his shoes. Surely I would have tried to spirit my aging mother out of Austria before it was too late. Also, I would have gone to America and tried to convince the political leaders and members of the media that Europe was about to be overtaken by a madman...
I would have held press conferences in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, trying to stir up support for the idea that intervention by the West was going to be the only way Hitler could be stopped from seizing the riches and the resources from every European country and murdering millions.
Civilization Liberalism introduced a very appealing idealistic perspective of the world, wishing for universal freedom and equality. Historical events, such as the French revolution or the industrial revolution seemed to change the world in this exact direction, but the truth is that liberalism failed to keep its promise regarding progress. Society did undergo fundamental changes. Absolutist regimes were brought down. The industrial advancements allowed for the creation of a new social order
Conservatives and socialists splitted society and failed to create a functioning coalition. After years of authoritarian monarchic control, proportional system of election led society to political chaos, as nearly 20 parties with different political programs from communist to right radicals were represented in Reichstag. None of country's politicians was successful either in diplomacy or in the art of achieving compromise. The experience of political pluralism led to political and
Leone Nelly Sachs was born in Berlin on December 10, 1891. She was the only child of a wealthy Berlin industrialist. The family lived in the Tiergartenviertel, a fashionable area of Berlin. Because of her family's wealth, Nelly was educated by private tutors her before she entered the Berliner Hhere Tchterschule. She studied music and dancing, and at an early age began writing poetry. Her early love of literature came
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