Posted on 07/04/2011 5:00:59 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Within that neatly closed circle lay all the major political dramas of the 20th century, most of which he witnessed and some of which he influenced. He was centre stage for one of them — the unequal struggle against Hitler for the survival of his Austrian homeland, which he tried to conduct as an exiled Pretender in the 1930s. Not for nothing did the Führer call the triumphant march-in of March 12 1938 “Operation Otto”.
All that seemed unimaginable to the world in which young Otto, as he was known, started life during the deceptively tranquil Indian summer of the 650-year-old Habsburg monarchy. He was born third in line to the throne on November 12 1912 in the small Vienna palace of Hetzendorf and christened with a string of names demonstrating that the blood of all the Roman Catholic royal families of Europe flowed in his veins: Franz Josef Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius.
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Franz Josef Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius.
Imagine trying to forge a birth certificate...
Member of the European parliament...another sneaky Hapsburg plot to take over the world.....
Quite a fellow, actually. I had no idea he was still alive. RIP for an exquisite bit of 20th-century history.
The Godfather of the EU, and a behind the scenes leader of the ‘New World Order’.
Here is a lecture of his given at the Mises Institute in which he praises the state of Alabama for saving Austria from the Communists: The Mises I Knew.
Napoleon dumped his first wife to marry a Habsburg girl. It all went down hill for him from there.
“Royalty”??
That is a term that still puzzles me to see in current conversation.
I thought all that died in the early part of the 20th Century.
I personally recognise NO KING on Earth. None.
Government should never be placed in a single hand or a few hands.
It can only be prevented from trampling the citizens if the Government is shackled by a well written Constitution.
I have no time or patience for this King/Queen BS.
Although I do have some respect for the Queen of England for her quiet reserved method of control.
But, will never be a “subject”. Never...
Feb. 2, 962AD-Otto 1 is declared Holy Roman Emperor
Mar. 31, 1961AD-Otto von Hapsburg renounces the throne.
Western Europe had a good run of Christian civilization. Wonder what the sequel will look like.
He certainly was the former. One of his more famous speeches about the European Union was made before the European Parliament in 1989 (remember, this organization is a toy parliament, like the Supreme Soviet and National People's Congress):
The Godfather of the EU, and a behind the scenes leader of the ‘New World Order’
"The (European) Community is living largely by the heritage of the Holy Roman Empire, though the great majority who live by it don't know by what heritage they live."I'm sure everyone here knows, but "Holy Roman Empire" in German is Heiliges Römisches Reich. He essentially called the European Union the Fourth Reich, there.
Don't think that's what he's getting at. As I read his assertion, he's correctly pointing out that European civilization is a footnote to the Catholic Church, that Europe was all woad and human sacrifice before the Church's teaching, and without said teaching it is to those things she shall return.
Nice trolling. Is Olog-hai related to Uruk-hai?
“Reich” is not “empire.” Literally, the English word is “rich.” It’s use as a political term is akin to the notion of a “commonwealth.” Von Habsburg’s words were spoken in English, and had he meant Reich, he would have said Reich.
The EU cannot be the Fourth Reich, because the first three Reichs were specifically German: Charlemagne’s empire, Kaiser Wilhelm’s empire, and Hitler’s intended nation, which was not an empire or kingdom, as it had no emperor or kingdom. Charlemagne’s empire was a Reich, but the third Reich was no empire, and a new Holy Roman Empire would be no Reich.
Face it, von Habsburg was being one of the good guys, trying to insist that any European Union MUST BE Christian to be virtuous. Unfortunately, he lost out to the socialists.
HAHAHA! HOLY CRAP! OLOG-HAI IS URUK-HAI!
“Olog-hai were “strong, agile, fierce, and cunning” trolls created by Sauron, not unlike the Uruk-hai, and were able to withstand sunlight while under the sway of Sauron’s will”
He started working on the EU in the 1930s. It’s my recollection that he shifted things north and west when the Red occupation of central Europe blocked the original idea.
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