Wien, 1919: Karl Kraus’ masterpiece, the play “The last days of mankind; A tragedy in five acts” was published in serial in Kraus’ own journal, "Die Fackel" (The torch). The play was written during the years of the First World War, as a huge kaleidoscope or collage of pictures, voices, rumors, vignettes, tittles in the newspapers, short conversations, quotes and songs from both sides: streets of Vienna and the front. Kraus’ apocalyptic vision of a war and his merciless satirical attack on the political and military establishments, probably didn’t moved those establishments at all. They have an another opinion about wars. As Hans Morgenthau, one of the main authors of Political realism in the 20th Century said: "Men do not fight because they have arms. They have arms because they deem it necessary to fight. Take away their arms and they will either fight with their bare fists, or get themselves new arms with which to fight."