Pulse en una miniatura para ir a Google Books.
Cargando... Hitler and the Habsburgspor James Longo
Ninguno Cargando...
Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I knew very little about Hitler prior to the WWII. I found this book to be interesting with facts about his younger years and his hatred for the Habsburgs. It was informational read and would recommend for anyone that wants to learn more about Hitler as a young man and his obsession with the Habsburgs. I knew very little about the Habsburgs and the political background of Austria prior to WWII. Hitler & the Habsburgs filled in the blanks and then some. This is the kind of non-fiction book I love to read--hard to put down and prompts me to learn more. Hitler’s background in Austria is the focal point at the beginning, but as Hitler grows older and gains power, the focal point shifts to the Habsburg family, and of course, the war. I had no idea of Hitler’s early years, so it was interesting to read about his hatred for the Habsburgs and how his path to power came about. James Longo’s informative details of the Habsburg family were written with such compassion. As the first two political prisoners taken after Hitler invaded Austria, Maximillian and Ernst Hohenberg were treated horribly. The family spent years trying to get them released and then spent more years trying to have the family property returned. History lovers and those who love reading about the Imperial dynasty will enjoy this one. It’s a fairly quick read and is very informative. I really liked it and will look for more of James Longo’s work in the future. Many thanks to NetGalley and Diversion Books for allowing me to read an advance copy and give my honest review. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
Debates activosNingunoCubiertas populares
Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)943.6052History and Geography Europe Germany and central Europe Austria and LiechtensteinClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
¿Eres tú?Conviértete en un Autor de LibraryThing. |
This well- written book explores the lasting impact of the assassination of ArchDuke Ferdinan and his wife in 1914. It is told from the point of view of the family. It is hard to imagine the strife the family endured. It also describes the impact this family had on Hitler and the lengths he went to complete his vendetta against them.
"The seeds of Hitler's remarkable rise to power, his Faustian rags-to-riches story could all be traced to his hatred of the Habsburgs and their multinational vision of the future."
Yet they endured!
( )