Waiting hall. Book 2. Family Opperman. Feikhtwanger L.

created almost in the days when the party of national socialists consolidated the power over Germany in the winter of 1933, the novel of the writer-antifacist Lyon Feikhtwanger shows the fall of the Weimar Republic through the eyes of a wealthy bourgeois Jewish family, shocked and paralyzed by the new dominant ideology.

The Opperman brothers - the genuine pillars of society and the personification of fidelity to traditions and stability in the spirit of the Weimar era: one of them owns a furniture company founded by their grandfather, the other is an outstanding surgeon, the third is a respected writer. Wealthy, cultural people, the proud heirs of the ideas of German liberalism, the oppersamns do not see a threat emanating from the Nazi party that is eager for power, but, being under its rule, they are faced with a terrible choice: try to adapt to a new order, escape or go up to a desperate struggle.