He went to the local shop for milk and catfood. The new sign read “supermarket” but was the same Greissler it had been for a hundred years, typical of any Austrian village: a mom-and-pop market selling everything from mousetraps to lottery tickets, booze and cigarettes, meat and bread.

As was customary in Austria he gave a generic greeting when he entered the store, a “Guten Tag” or “Gr