Robert and Martha left Austria about five months after the Anschluss with the German Reich, carrying with them only the necessary manuscripts to continue writing the unfinished Man Without Qualities, some clothes and small valuables—and left behind their entire Vienna apartment on Rasumofskygasse, filled with books, photographs, furniture, family heirlooms, the manuscript of The Confusions of Young Toerless, the first version of Musil’s doctoral dissertation on Ernst Mach, and scores of other papers, newspaper clippings, and precious memorabilia.