Soon after that he returned for the last time, with his wife, to Vienna. He was terminally ill and destitute, but he had never been forgotten by the media establishment in the Austrian capital, where his theatre reviews, court reports and other contributions had continued to appear in the city's newspapers. He continued to find work. Two of his contributions from that final period, in particular, stand out. In June 1933 - following an example set by "Managing editor Roth" in his own recent novel - Großmann published a polemical "Open letter to Gerhart Hauptmann". Hauptmann had failed to speak out in support of his Jewish colleague Max Reinhardt who was having problems with the Nazis. He had failed to condemn Nazi book burnings. He had found nothing to say about the expulsions of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, Leonhard Frank, Alfred Döblin and Jakob Wassermann. He had remained a member of the "... alongside Hanns Johst". "In an age ruled by self-serving cowardice, your silence at this time is one of the bitterest disappointments that we have experienced". The next year he published an anonymous article in Klaus Mann's literary monthly, "Die Sammlung" (published "in exile" in Amsterdam) under the headline "Independent Austria" ("Unabhängiges Österreich"). He identified the "causes of the crushing defeat of the Viennese workers" ("den "Ursachen der vernichtenden Niederlage der Wiener Arbeiter"") in the brief but savagely ended uprising of February 1934. He closed with a gloomy but accurate prediction of an Austria integrated into a larger German state. Chancellor Dolfuss, shortly before his own assassination, became aware of Großmann's article and took the opportunity to place a formal ban, in Austria, on "Die Sammlung".