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| e976171 | The end of the war brought the closing of the borders cutting off Austria's coal supply from Czechoslovakia, leaving the Austrians at peace but hungry, cold, and vulnerable to tuberculosis and a virulent form of influenza (Grosskurth, 1991, p. 82). Writer Stefan Zweig described postwar Vienna as "an uncertain, gray, and lifeless shadow of the former imperial monarchy" (qtd. in Gay, 1988, p. 380)." | Daniel Benveniste |