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Quoted at the beginning of the episode to describe the atmosphere at the outbreak of WWI. The hosts explicitly identify it as written by Zweig in 1942 about the outbreak of the First World War.

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The hosts read a passage from Zweig's memoir describing the afternoon of June 28, 1914, when news of the assassination reached him in a park in Baden. They describe it as 'his wonderful book, which gives a portrait of the world that was destroyed, the pre-1914 world.'