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Hitler and the Habsburgs

The Fuhrer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals

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Hitler and the Habsburgs

By: James Longo
Narrated by: David Colacci
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Five youthful years in Vienna. It was then and there 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 20th 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.

©2018 James M. Longo (P)2018 Tantor
20th Century Europe Military Modern War Royalty Colonial Period Imperialism Holocaust

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"Hitler and the Habsburgs offers a new perspective on Hitler that contrasts him with one family's bravery, Christian faith, and utter heroism... We need books like this one to remind us of the black hole of terror into which we can so easily plunge." (Sue Woolmans, co-author of The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914)

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As a complete novice in this topic, I have learned a lot from this book and enjoyed the narration.

Fascinating storytelling, good narration

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Was unaware of the venom displayed by Hitler in pursuit of the Habsbutg family and humbled by their fortitude in the face of Nazi thuggery. Informative and compelling; a good book.

A tragedy redeemed by grace.

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I didn't know what to expect from this book. as someone who has an interest in WW2 I learned a lot about the Arch Duke and his family and the harsh treatment by the rest of Habsburg family then the Nazi's then the Czechoslovakia government then the Soviet government then the Austrian government. A very very interesting listen.

A very good royal Family book.

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