The World of Yesterday but hated politics and shunned political engagement. His autobiography shows some reluctance to analyse Nazism as a political ideology; he tended simply to regard it as the rule of one particularly evil man, Hitler. Zweig was struck that the "Berghof", Hitler's mountain residence in Berchtesgaden, was just across the valley from his own house outside Salzburg. Berchtesgaden was an area of early Nazi activity. Zweig believed strongly in Europeanism against nationalism. Zweig also describes his passion for collecting manuscripts, mostly literary and musical. Zweig collaborated in the early 1930s with composer Richard Strauss on the opera "Die schweigsame Frau", which
Commission for Organising the Fortified Regions part of the Maginot Line. Commission for Organising the Fortified Regions The Commission for Organizing the Fortified Regions (French: "La Commission d'organisation des régions fortifiées" (CORF)), is a French military organization created on 30September 1927 by the Minister of War Paul Painlevé to study and carry out border fortification. Its creation was not a spontaneous decision but the result of a long and deep reflection on how best to defend the borders of France. The acronym CORF also refers to a type of fortification, be it "ouvrage" (earthwork), bunker, observatory or shelter, whose plans were drawn up by the Commission