1942. Suicide of Stefan Zweig

75 years ago, on February 23, 1942, the Austrian Antifashist writer Stefan Zweig and his wife, who lived in exile in the Brazilian city of Petropolis, committed suicide, taking a large dose of sleeping pills. According to Erich Maria Remarca, the cause of suicide was that "Zweig was in a foreign land among strangers."

Zweig was an enemy not Toko Nazi, but also of the Stalinist terror. Back in 1936, he wrote to Romain Rollan: “In your Russia, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Veterans of the Revolution, the first associates of Lenin were shot like crazy dogs ... forever the same technique as Hitler’s, like Robespierre: ideological disagreements call a“ conspiracy ”.