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
Salzbergwerk Berchtesgaden and is used annually by about 330,000 visitors. The track length of the visitor mine is about 1400 meters and vehicles used for passenger transport are from 1995. The track is powered by a direct current of 400 volts supplied via a lateral current rail. "Article contains translated text from on the German Wikipedia retrieved on 25 February 2017." Salzbergwerk Berchtesgaden Salzbergwerk Berchtesgaden is the oldest active salt mine in Germany, in which salt is mainly extracted in the wet, and also a showcase in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria. The salt mining industry in Berchtesgaden formed before the 13th century and was