Austrian Exile and Political Upheaval

The Royal Game

The story places Dr B’s personal catastrophe within the rapid destruction of independent life in Austria.

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Watching Germany Watching Germany from "The Royal Game". Warning Across a Border Political methods spread Dr B describes the movement building networks of resentful supporters and informants in neighboring countries.

Watching Germany from "The Royal Game". Warning Across a Border Political methods spread Dr B describes the movement building networks of resentful supporters and informants in neighboring countries.

Warning Across a Border Political methods spread Dr B describes the movement building networks of resentful supporters and informants in neighboring countries. What begins beyond Austria increasingly touches its ministries and businesses. The danger within institutions A clerk in Dr B’s office proves to be an informer. The practice’s modest appearance cannot protect it once surveillance reaches into its daily operations.

The Annexation Crisis The Annexation Crisis from "The Royal Game". A Country Overrun Sudden political collapse The resignation of Schuschnigg and the approaching German occupation bring the secret threat into the open.

The Annexation Crisis from "The Royal Game". A Country Overrun Sudden political collapse The resignation of Schuschnigg and the approaching German occupation bring the secret threat into the open.

A Country Overrun Sudden political collapse The resignation of Schuschnigg and the approaching German occupation bring the secret threat into the open. Dr B is arrested by the SS just before the change of power is completed. Private life overwhelmed His professional safeguards and careful routines prove insufficient against the state’s force. The arrest turns the crisis of a nation into a personal struggle for survival.

Exile’s Paperwork Exile’s Paperwork from "The Royal Game". Leaving Home Administrative escape After release, Dr B must complete military, police, tax, passport, visa, and health procedures.

Exile’s Paperwork from "The Royal Game". Leaving Home Administrative escape After release, Dr B must complete military, police, tax, passport, visa, and health procedures.

Leaving Home Administrative escape After release, Dr B must complete military, police, tax, passport, visa, and health procedures. The formalities leave little time to reflect on imprisonment. Memory deferred The practical demands help him leave, but do not resolve his trauma. Only later, aboard the ship, does he find enough distance to begin recalling his confinement.

After the National Socialist movement takes power in Germany

March 1938, as the German forces approach Vienna

The fourteen days following Dr B’s release