Posted on 05/19/2022 2:34:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
'The Sound of Music,' was based loosely on a 1949 book by Maria von Trapp. Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agathe Whitehead von Trapp, had seven children.
Rosmarie Trapp, whose Austrian family the von Trapps was made famous in the musical and beloved movie The Sound of Music, has died.
She died Friday at the age of 93 at a nursing home in Morrisville, Vermont, Trapp Family Lodge announced. Her brother Johannes is president of the Stowe resort.
Rosmarie was the first daughter of Austrian naval Capt. Georg von Trapp and Maria von Trapp, and a younger half-sibling to the older von Trapp children portrayed on stage and in the movie. The family escaped from Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938 and performed singing tours throughout Europe and America. They settled in Vermont in the early 1940s and opened a ski lodge in Stowe.
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All of Europe has been chopped up several times. Much the same could be said of Asia (including the Subcontinent and Asia Minor) and Africa. Probably also of both Americas in pre-Columbian times.
Andrew Zimmern in his show titled “Family Dinner”, visited the Von Trapp family in Vermont.
The same way a US Navy ship might get a Captain from Nebraska...Austrians could join the German navy.
I always smirked at that despite knowing better. But I’d like to know how I have an ancestor who in the Swiss navy.
IMO:
1) WWI should never have happened. Assassinating a minor nobleman simply should not be sufficient to plunge all of Europe into years of bloodshed. It was not a conflict between “The Good Guys” and “The Bad Guys”, but a conflict among “The Stupid Guys”.
2) We (USA) should have stayed the bloody hell OUT of it. I’m no pacifist. OTOH, I’m also not a fan of war. We gave the “Allies” a decisive victory, which led to ridiculously punitive terms of surrender imposed on the “Axis” nations, which among other things led to the rise of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Nothing at all good came of that ...
3) War propaganda can be very dangerous. It is wise, I think, to be extremely suspicious of it regardless of who it comes from.
I agree, except that the Archduke Ferdinand was not a minor nobleman, but the de-facto and future head-of-state of one of the world’s great empires. And Serbia was absolutely seeking regime change by having him assassinated. So yeah, Austria had a cassus belli. But France? the UK? Russia? the USA?
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Except World War I did not start because of that assassination. That was just an excuse. The leadership and diplomatic corps were all expecting a general war to come. They had been planning for it for a long time. And countries like the U.K. had calculations about when it would be best to happen, based on how fast Germany was building it's navy. And Germany had plans, base on their timelines. Everyone knew it was coming, but it could have happened a few years later. Or earlier.
For examples, look at Arthur Conan-Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, The Adventure of the Naval Treaty in 1893, and The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans in 1908.
Don’t forget the Luxemburg Navy!
A few years before the outbreak of the First World War, Churchill was at a diplomatic reception. An Italian military attaché asked a Luxembourgeois diplomat about a medal he was wearing. ‘It is an ancient order called the Royal Admiralty Cross,’ the diplomat replied stiffly. After he had stalked off, the Italian turned to the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, and remarked how odd it was that Luxembourg should have this when it did not even have a navy. ‘Why shouldn’t they have an admiralty?’ Churchill answered cheerfully. ‘You in Italy, after all, have a minister of finance – yet you don’t have a treasury!’
W. S. Churchill
And the idiots were bound and determined to make it happen. Wars don't just "come", like hurricanes or tornadoes or earthquakes. Wars are started by specific people, with names and faces and offices, who think war will be good for them.
So, let me get this straight: You’re saying that the U.K. wanted the war NO MATTER WHAT AUSTRIA-HUNGARY did? That if Austria-Hungary didn’t start the war, the U.K. would find some pretext for starting WWI? I mean, that’s what that boils down to. If what you’re saying is true, then Germany could be accused of starting the war by siding with Austria-Hungary, merely using Serbia as a pretext for a war they can foresee Russia will join, but the UK and France are at least equally guilty for not letting Russia and Germany slug it out, but instead trying to destroy Germany. That leaves the UK and France 100% morally culpable for the rise of Hitler.
That is probably it. Thanks!
RIP.
Thank you!
Bitte Schon!
The whole album is fantastic.
FReegards!
Georg von Trapp was born in Zadar (also called Zara), in what is now the Republic of Croatia.
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