Hitler and the Habsburgs : the Führer's vendetta against the Austrian royals

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Hitler and the Habsburgs : the Führer's vendetta against the Austrian royals

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the Führer's vendetta against the Austrian royals

Statement of responsibility

James M. Longo

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Hitler and the Habsburgs

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the fuhrers vendetta against the Austrian royals

Creator

• trueLongo, James McMurtry

Author

• trueLongo, James McMurtry

Subject

• 1938-1945
• Austria
• trueAustria
• trueAustria -- History -- 1900-1945
• trueAustria -- History -- 1938-1945
• trueBetrayal
• trueClass conflict
• trueCourage
• trueDetermination
• trueDetermination (Personal quality)
• Families
• Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, 1863-1914
• Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, 1863-1914 -- Family
• HISTORY / Holocaust
• HISTORY / Military / World War II
• HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
• Habsburg, House of
• Habsburg, House of
• trueHate
• trueHeirs and heiresses
• History
• Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945
• Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945
• trueMulticulturalism
• trueNationalism
• truePolitical prisoners
• trueResistance to military occupation
• trueWorld War II
• Anti-Nazi movement -- Austria
• trueAnti-Nazi movement

Genre

• trueHistory

Language

eng

Summary

A stunning work of narrative history revealing how and why Adolf Hitler targeted the children of the assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, making the Archduke's sons the first two Austrians deported to the Dachau concentration camp, and how the family fought back. It was during five youthful years in Vienna that Adolf Hitler's obsession with the Habsburg Imperial family became the catalyst for his vendetta against a vanished empire, a dead archduke, and his royal orphans. That hatred drove Hitler's rise to power and led directly to the tragedy of the Second World War and the Holocaust. The royal orphans of Archduke Franz Ferdinand--offspring of an upstairs-downstairs marriage that scandalized the tradition-bound Habsburg Empire--came to personify to Adolf Hitler, and others, all that was wrong about modernity, the twentieth century, and the Habsburg's multi-ethnic, multi-cultural Austro-Hungarian Empire. They were outsiders in the greatest family of royal insiders in Europe, which put them on a collision course with Adolf Hitler. As he rose to power Hitler's hatred toward the Habsburgs and their diverse empire fixated on Franz Ferdinand's sons, who became outspoken critics and opponents of the Nazi party and its racist ideology. When Germany seized Austria in 1938, they were the first two Austrians arrested by the Gestapo, deported to Germany, and sent to Dachau. Within hours they went from palace to prison. The women in the family, including the Archduke's only daughter Princess Sophie Hohenberg, declared their own war on Hitler. Their tenacity and personal courage in the face of betrayal, treachery, torture, and starvation sustained the family during the war and in the traumatic years that followed. Through a decade of research and interviews with the descendants of the royal Habsburgs, scholar James Longo explores the roots of Hitler's determination to destroy the family of the dead Archduke and uncovers the family members' courageous fight against the Führer

Writing style

• trueWell-researched
• trueAccessible
• trueScholarly

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

943.6/052

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

DB99

LC item number

.L66 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography