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225. an uncomfortable reminder of their past.: Ibid.
225. physical threats, he refused to give up.: Ibid.
226. a resolution to the stalemate.: Ibid.
226. opponents continued blocking Otto’s return.: Ibid.
226. He died the following day.: Hohenberg, Princess Sophie de Potesta.
226. but his request was rejected.: Ibid.
226. “began at Belvedere Palace in 1902.”: Pauli, 307–308.
227. lived their lives faithful to the law.: Millard, 156.
227. stay with us forever.: Pauli, 307–308.
227. welcomed her cousin home.: Hohenberg, Princess Sophie de Potesta.
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228. to return to Czechoslovakia for a visit.: Nostitz-Rieneck, Count.
228. library had replaced it.: Ibid.
229. tourists shuffling through the castle.: Ibid.
229. soothing him with a smile.: Ibid.
229. “write what they want to write.”: Ibid.
229. “next interview will print the truth.”: Ibid.
229. he came to live with her.: Ibid.
230. what we do with them.: Ibid.
231. sisters-in-law would be together.: Hohenberg, Princess Sophie de Potesta.
231. beneath the chapel next to Ernst.: Hohenberg, Princess Anita.
232. forms of multilateral political organizations.: St. Louis Post Dispatch, April 7, 1989, editorial, p. 3.
232. eastern Europeans fled into Austria.: Habsburg, H.R.I.H Christian, October 22, 2011. My wife and I were having dinner with the director of the Zentrum für Friedensforschung und Frieden Spädagogik (Centre for Research and Peace Education) in Klagenfurt, Austria, on July 1, 2011, when we received a telephone call informing us Otto Habsburg had died. The next day, black bunting could be seen hanging from windows in the city center.
232. the expulsion of the nation’s Sudeten “Germans.”: Ibid.
232. and calls for European unity.: Ibid.
232. or the wars that followed Sarajevo.: Nostitz-Rieneck, Count.
233. who remained alive in her heart.: Ibid.
233. rooted in that faith and family.: Ibid.
233. died peacefully in her sleep.: Ibid.
234. I have kept the faith.: Ibid.
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235. a decade of communist occupation.: Hohenberg, Princess Sophie de Potesta.
236. his brother, sister, and himself.: Ibid.
236. forty cases of artifacts from Konopiste.: Edsel, Robert M. The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, 305–306, Center Street Hachette Book Group, New York, 2009. Robert G.L. Waite also discusses the treasure found in the Alt-Aussee mines in his book, The Psychopathic God Adolf Hitler, as designated for Hitler’s “Linz Center,” p. 67.
236. great-grandchildren they would never know.: Hohenberg, Princess Sophie de Potesta. Ironically the wife of Baldur von Schirach and widow of Herman Goering both attempted to have art works stolen by their husbands during the war from Jewish families returned to them, not their rightful Jewish owners. For the most part, they succeeded. See: “Looted by Nazis, and Returned, Art is Back in Wrong Hands,” New York Times article by Doreen Carajai and Allison Smale.
236. were returned to Czechoslovakia.: Ibid.
236. Konopiste was reopened as a museum.: Ibid.
236. to visit the castle of his father’s dream.: Ibid.
236. “Now I really don’t understand our father.”: Ibid.
237. reality began to almost haunt him.: Ibid.
237. could not steal the love from that house.: Ibid.
238. fight about justice and truth.: Ibid.
238. Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna, Christopher Schönborn.: Nostitz-Rieneck, Count.
238. one of the stained-glass windows.: Hohenberg, Prince Gerhard.
238. love that made their lives possible.: Nostiz-Rieneck, Count.
238. Austrians in Argentina sorted out.: Hohenberg, Georg Duke of.
239. a quiet laugh only he heard.: Ibid.
239. beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India.: Hohenberg, Prince Gerhard.
240. of the royal family spoke volumes.: Ibid.
240. worst during the worst of times.: Cooke, Alistair. Six Men, 82. Edward’s secretary wrote, “The King was like the child in the fairy stories who had been given every gift except a soul.” The Houston Chronicle wrote of the Duke and Duchess, “Two people whose sense of history began and ended with each other.”
240. and Habsburg cousins were there.: Hohenberg, Georg Duke of.
240. The Hohenberg’s cousin, Cardinal Schönborn, had been the principle sponsor of Otto Habsburg’s beatification.
240. good Christians, Austrians, and Habsburgs.: Brook-Shepherd, Uncrowned Emperor, 216.
240. there is always hope.: Hohenberg, Georg Duke of.
241. How could we not believe in miracles?: Hohenberg, Prince Gerhard.
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