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    From the Hofburg to the Berghof: Seventy Years Later...

    Hi All -

    My students this year went to Vienna and Munich. I actually had the luck (?) of being in Vienna on March 13, 2008 - 70 years to the day after the Anschluss. It was a very odd feeling - quite a few news crews in the Heldenplatz, and a few of the pics I snapped at roughly the exact time that Adolf Hitler announced Austria's absorption into the Reich. I hope you enjoy the show!

    Don

    First up, the Hofburg. My students ran into quite a few Austrians who were actually pro-Anschluss, if not pro-Nazi - Europe's immigration probl3ems played a large role in that, I believe....
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    I took this picture at nearlythe exact time Hitler spoke from the Hofburg balcony seventy years ago to the day...
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      The balcony form whence Hitler spoke:
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        I have always thought the Habsburg eagle was a cool looking bird...
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          I also visited the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum while in Vienna. I was fascinated by the fetish for saving the sofas and beds that the high and mighty had died on - I saw the bed the Franz Josef died on, and the sofas where Franz Ferdinand and Engelbert Dolfuss died... They also had Franz Josef's uniform he was wearing when he was assasinated. After seeing the sewing of the award loops on his tunic, I will never again turn my nose up at sloppily done loops - his were abysmal! Here's his uniform and tunic:
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            His complete unform from Sarajevo and the sofa on which he died...
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              The automobile he and his wife were in when they were shot:
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                Some of the uniforms were very nice, some... There was a 98.GJR full bird colonel's named Waffenrock that I was tempted to try to take home with me...
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                  Dolfuss' sofa and death mask...
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                    A Storch witha GJR in the background...
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                      I next followed the trail of the 1923 Beerhall Putsch in Munich...

                      A shot of the Neues Rathaus in the Marienplatz, where the marchers passed through:
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                        A cordon of police forced the marchers into the narrow Residenzstrasse, where another police cordon awaited them near the Odeonsplatz and the Feldernnhalle...
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                          The traffic bollards are at almost the exact spot the marchers were at when the police opened fire on them. The Feldherrnhalle is to the left...
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                            This is the spot on the Feldherrnhalle where the NSDAP monument to the putschists was placed and an SS guard stood eternal watch - the small plaque's restng place still remains, but hte larger monument's pediment has been covered with stone cladding. More to come!
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                              Very well done tour so far Don... keep it coming...

                              Thanks,
                              Bob

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