Waiting Room. Book 2. The Opperman Family

Created practically in the days when the National Socialist Party consolidated power over Germany in the winter of 1933, the novel by the writer and anti-fascist Lion Feuchtwanger, "The Oppermann Family," shows the fall of the Weimar Republic through the eyes of a wealthy bourgeois Jewish family, shocked and paralyzed by the new prevailing ideology. The Oppermann brothers are true pillars of society and embody faithfulness to traditions and stability in the spirit of the Weimar era: one of them owns a furniture company founded by their grandfather, another is an outstanding surgeon, and the third is a respected writer. Wealthy, cultured people, proud heirs of German liberalism, the Oppermanns do not see the threat in the rising Nazi party for a long time. However, once under its rule, they, like their children, are faced with a terrible choice: to try to adapt to the new order, flee, or engage in a desperate struggle.