Hitler and the Habsburgs. The Führer's Revenge on the Ruling House of Austria
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Hitler and the Habsburgs. The Führer's Revenge on the Ruling House of Austria
14.99 €
As a young man, Adolf Hitler lived in Vienna for five years. It was there and then that a hateful attitude towards the ruling Habsburg imperial family was finally formed, a desire to take revenge on the vanished empire, the murdered Archduke and his heirs. This became one of the main causes of World War II and the Holocaust. From the heights of power, Hitler unleashed all his hatred of the Habsburgs and their motley empire on Franz-Ferdinand's sons, who openly opposed the Nazi Party and its racist ideology. When Germany invaded Austria in 1938, it was Maximilian and Ernst who became the first Austrians to be arrested by the Gestapo. Sent to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, the brothers were taken from the palace to the penitentiary in a matter of hours. The women of the family, including the Archduke's only daughter, Princess Sophia Hohenberg, confronted Hitler. Their resilience and bravery in the face of betrayals, treason, torture and starvation helped the family survive both the war and the difficult peacetime. In search of an answer to the question of why Hitler was so determined to eradicate the family of the murdered Archduke, author James M. Longo spent a decade researching and talking to descendants of the ruling House of Habsburg, and eventually detailed the story of Franz Ferdinand's family's fearless struggle against the Führer.
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