“All the pale horses of the Apocalypse have stormed through my life, Revolution and famine, inflation and terror, epidemics and emigration; I have seen the great mass ideologies grow and spread before my eyes, fascism in Italy, National Socialism in Germany, Bolshevism in Russia and above all that arch-plague, nationalism, which has poisoned the flowering of our European culture.”
– The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European, Stefan Zweig, 1942.
