- "The Czechs, Poles, Italians and Slovenes had snatched away their countries and what remained was a mutilated trunk... Two starving and freezing millions crowded the capital alone: the industries which had formerly enriched the land were now on foreign soil, the railroads had become wrecked stumps, and the State Bank received, in place of its gold, the gigantic burden of debt."
- ―Stefan Zweig about post-war Vienna[src]
Stefan Zweig was an Austrian writer from Vienna. With defeat in war and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire, Stefan Zweig described how once-splendid Vienna was reduced to a sad and devastated city.[1]
Appearances[]
- The Secret Treaty (Historical Note)
