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“The time without light”, caricature on the lack of lighting gas and petroleum from: Der Morgen, issue of 22 January 1917

The shortage of energy also meant that the Vienna Town Hall was no longer lit up in the evening. The comment of the two passers-by reads: “Even if the clocks are not lit up, we will always know what hour has struck!”

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    “The Dying City”

    Starting the war was easy. But ending the war seemed to be an impossibility. The population no longer wished to hear anything about the war after the “Swedish Turnip Winter” of 1916/17. The Imperial Capital and Residence sank into a vortex of apathy and aggression, dirt and social ignominy.