Every time something happened in Austria after 1918, the country was under observation: as German-Austria, the First Republic, the Corporative State, the Alpine and Danubian Gaue of the Greater German Reich, the Second Republic - right up to the present day. People looked, heard, and generally did not keep silent, and this has not changed. It is as though Austria were still the same testing ground for the end of the world that Karl Kraus described. This is a gripping and varied overview of Austrian history over the last 100 years.