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you certainly don't know how belligerent the Hapsburgs were
by wolfi1 5mo ago
you certainly don't know how belligerent the Hapsburgs were
- preisschild 5mo agoFun Fact, a Habsburg was even blamed for the dissolution of the German Democratic Republic > After his fall, Honecker said of Otto von Habsburg in relation to the summer of 1989, "this Habsburg drove the nail into my coffin." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-European_Picnic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-European_Picnic
- eru 5mo agoWeirdly enough, Honecker was unrepentant until his death. They didn't put him on trial in the unified Germany, because the law in Germany is intentionally soft towards the terminally ill.
- eru 5mo agoWeren't they supposed to marry, not war?
- wolfi1 5mo agothat's just a myth, there even is a black book on them (in German). one of the many examples is the Magnate Conspiracy, from WP: "Petar Zrinski and Fran Krsto Frankopan (Francesco Cristoforo Frangipani) were ordered to the Emperor's Court. The note said that, as they had ceased their rebellion and had repented soon enough, they would be given mercy from the Emperor if they would plead for it. They were arrested the moment they arrived in Vienna, and put on trial. They were held in Wiener Neustadt and beheaded on April 30, 1671."