''Jeremiah: A Drama in Nine Scenes'', or ''Jeremias'', is a 1917 play written in German by

Stefan Zweig Stefan Zweig ( ; ; 28 November 1881 – 22 February 1942) was an Austrian writer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and popular writers in the world. Zweig was raised in V ...

. Written while he was a soldier, it reflects his pacifist sentiments and Jewish religious background, and ends with the line "A people can be put in chains, its spirit, never." Thomas Adam wroteThomas Adam
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Nazism Nazism (), formally named National Socialism (NS; , ), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany. During Hitler's rise to power, it was fre ...

, culminating in '' The Royal Game'' (''Schachnovelle'', a novella written in 1938–'41 and posthumously published in 1942).

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