On 25 May 1931 Thomas Mann's son Klaus Mann first considered emigrating from his native land because of the political situation. Two years later, he, the rest of the Mann family, and many others of Germany's finest minds did go into exile. In 1931 Carossa, outwardly at least, undisturbed by the "gathering storm" published "Der Arzt Gion". Although still strongly autobiographical, this work was his first and only major work written in the third person. (The only other one was his short story "Ein Tag im Spätsommer 1947".) Der "Arzt Gion" reflects a maturity and optimism which had been becoming increasingly evident in Carossa's works, but which seems strangely out of place in the depression-scarred, dictator-threatened Europe of 1931. From now on, except for a short period toward the end of World War II, the poet-doctor Carossa gave up medical practice completely. Carossa's last book before the Nazi Regime began was "Führung und Geleit" (1932), an inner survey rather than a true autobiography of his life from early youth to the 1920.