Waiting Room. Book 2. The Oppermann Family

Created practically in the days when the National Socialist party consolidated its power over Germany in the winter of 1933, the novel by anti-fascist writer Lion Feuchtwanger "The Oppermann Family" portrays the fall of the Weimar Republic through the eyes... of a prosperous bourgeois Jewish family, shaken and paralyzed by the new prevailing ideology.

The Oppermann brothers are true pillars of society and embody loyalty 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 literati. Wealthy, cultured people, proud heirs of German liberal ideas, the Oppermans do not initially see the threat posed by the Nazi party eager for power, but once under its rule, they face a terrible choice: attempt to adapt to the new order, flee, or rise up for a desperate fight...