It was built in those days, ..... When the National Socialist Party consolidated its power over Germany in the winter of 1933,.... The novel by the anti-fascist writer Lyon Feichtwanger “The Opperman Family” shows the fall of the Weimar Republic through the eyes of a wealthy bourgeois Jewish family. , Shocked and paralysed by the new dominant ideology. The Opperman brothers are the true pillars of society and the embodiment of loyalty to traditions and stability in the spirit of the Weimar era: one of them owns a furniture company founded by their grandfather, the other is an outstanding surgeon, the third is a respected writer. Wealthy, cultural people, proud heirs to the ideas of German liberalism, the Oppermans do not see the threat in the Nazi party that is eager for power for a long time, but, being under its rule, they, like their children, face a terrible choice. try to adapt to the new order, flee or rise to a desperate struggle...