On November 12, 2018, the proclamation of the Republic marks its hundredth anniversary. A state that was still called "Deutschösterreich" at the time of its founding and which many believed would not survive. Yet the German-speaking "remnants" of the shattered Habsburg Empire demonstrate a will to live and a spirit of action. With the "Anschluss" to Nazi Germany, Austria disappears from the maps, but not from the minds and hearts of its people. The rebirth of the Republic in 1945 unites them as Austrians in a common effort for a better future. Hubert Nowak highlights the key milestones and decisive changes along this path, painting a vivid and nuanced picture of a state that finds itself in two attempts after the catastrophes of an "age of extremes." November 1918: That was the beginning.