A refuge for wounded soldiers and officers of the Austro-Hungarian Army in the Karawanken mountain range: It's the first days in November of the year 1918, shortly before the armistice between Austria-Hungary and the Allied Powers. A colonel is being buried. Officers from all parts of the Dual Monarchy are standing next to his grave. They take turns throwing earth into his open grave, saying: "Earth from Hungary. Earth from Poland, Earth from Carinthia. Slovenian Earth. Czech Earth". The shovel is passed on to Dr Grun, the Jewish regiment physician. After a moment of hesitation he says: "Earth from Austria". Following the ceremony the soldiers and officers leave the refuge to return to their home countries which will no longer be the same. In these words Franz Theodor Csokor describes the events surrounding the armistice on 3 November 1918, in a play of the same name.
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