Childrens History Nonfiction

Die bewegende Wahrheit: Alle info zur Tragödie von Mayerling

Der Tod des Kronprinzen Rudolf und der Baronesse Mary Vetsera stellt noch immer eines der großen Rätsel der österreichischen Geschichte dar. Nie wurde der Fall wirklich abgeschlossen, immer wieder tauchen neue Gerüchte auf, wie der Sohn des Kaisers und seine Geliebte ums Leben kamen. Nun liegt ein Zeugnis vor, das wenige Wochen nach der Tragödie diktiert wurde: die »Denkschrift« von Marys Mutter, Helene Vetsera. Auf 148 Seiten, die hier erstmals im handschriftlichen unique und transkribiert wiedergegeben werden, macht sie deutlich, dass ihre Tochter nicht, wie vom Kaiserhaus verbreitet, Täterin, sondern Opfer battle. Sie enthüllt zahlreiche information der Vorgeschichte sowie die letzten Briefe Marys: »Ich konnte der Liebe nicht widerstehen.«
Georg Markus und Katrin Unterreiner veröffentlichen dieses einmalige Dokument aus der »Kaiserhaussammlung Plachutta« und enthüllen die Geheimnisse der Tragödie von Mayerling.

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Canadian global warfare II pilot Charley Fox, now in his overdue eighties, has had an exhilarating existence, in particular at the day in July 1944 in France whilst he noticed a black employees automobile, the sort frequently hired to force high-ranking 3rd Reich dignitaries. Already famous for his ability in dive-bombing and strafing the enemy, Fox went in to assault the auto. because it grew to become out, the automobile contained famed German basic Erwin Rommel, the desolate tract Fox, and Charley succeeded in wounding him.

Rommel, who on the time was once the Germans’ superb army commander in France orchestrating the Nazis’ resistance to the D-day invasion, was once by no means an identical after that. writer Steve Pitt makes a speciality of this seminal occasion in Charley Fox’s lifestyles and within the battle, yet he additionally presents interesting facets of the interval, together with profiles of famous ace pilots Buzz Beurling and Billy Bishop, Jr., and nice get away architect Walter Floody, in addition to sidebars approximately Hurricanes, Spitfires, and Messerschmitts.

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