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
Fortified Sector of Maubeuge held out until 23 May. The first battalion was able to escape to Dunkerque and was evacuated. The unit formed part of the ill-fated 54th IR in Normandy, and was captured at Falaise. La Salmagne is managed by a preservation society and is occasionally open to the public. Fort de Leveau is preserved by the town of Feignies and its World War II era additions are preserved as well. Fortified Sector of Maubeuge The Fortified Sector of Maubeuge ("Secteur Fortifié de Maubeuge") was the French military organization that in 1940 controlled the section of the Maginot Line between the French