Zweig’s wartime German patriotism continued a pre-war drive to claim German cultural space

Evidence

Curious as it may seem, Zweig had a expressed a similar will to make Germany’s literary concern into his own in “Zum Problem des jüdischen Dichters in Deutschland” [On the problem of the Jewish writer in Germany] of the previous year. His early enthusiasm for staking out a space in the Germany literary and cultural realm carried over into the war years in a new manifestation. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 419