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
Lost Mountain wells. Squatters who defied authority, the mountain’s isolation, and the ease of keeping unwanted people off the mountain made it a perfect location for their settlement. The mountain was part of a very busy setting due to the location of Kosoma, Oklahoma—an early boomtown turned ghost town—nearby. The St. Louis and San Francisco Railway, whose tracks ran along the mountain’s base, operated from the 1880s until 100 years later. Timber, logged from Lost Mountain and adjacent mountains, was shipped from the railroad depot at Kosoma. The mountain’s name was most likely given during this time—the 1880s through the early 1900s