Following "Karl Kraus - Satirist of the Apocalypse: Life and Work 1874-1918," Edward Timms presents in this volume, through precise detailed analyses, pointed quotes, and far-reaching contextualizations, how the satirist responded to the turbulent developments of the interwar period. Kraus' magazine "Die Fackel" serves as an indispensable guide through the cultural politics of this time. His most significant polemics of the 1920s are analyzed in a central section titled "Defense of the Republic," which highlights his ambivalent alliance with the Social Democrats as well as his confrontations with the conservative Chancellor Ignaz Seipel and the Vienna Police Chief Johann Schober. The legend that Kraus responded to Hitler's rise to power with silence is definitively refuted in the end. He had warned of the rise much earlier.