On February 23, 1942, while Axis forces were triumphing everywhere—the Japanese overrunning the Philippines, the British withdrawing back to Egypt, and the proceedings of the Wannsee conference being typed up—Stefan Zweig and his wife Lotte laid down in bed together, took poison, and committed suicide. The day before, Zweig mailed the manuscript of his memoir, The World of Yesterday, to his publisher.
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