Austria & the Habsburgs

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Friedrich von der Pfalz, a.k.a. Frederick V the Elector Palatine (der Winterkönig)

Friedrich von der Pfalz was born in 1596 & reigned as Elector Palatine of the Holy Roman Empire from 1610 to 1623 & as King of Bohemia from 1619 to 1620. Frederick V's defeat with his defeat at the Battle of White Mountain on 8 November 1620 (a year & four days after his coronation) brought about 398 years of foreign subjugation for the Czech people & earned him the scathing sobriquet 'der Winterkönig' in Bohemia as the Thirty Years' War spread throughout the empire...

Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia

Ferdinand von Habsburg was elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1619 but his attempt to reimpose Catholicism by force throughout Germany spread the incipient Thirty Years' War throughout the Holy Roman Empire & reduced the position of the emperor to a mere figurehead outside the Hapsburg Erblande (inherited Habsburg lands)

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Karl Böhm - Wikipedia

Karl Böhm was born in Graz in 1894; his collaboration with the Nazis & support for Hitler need to be taken account in assessing his legacy, but who has conducted Mozart's music — esp. his opera "Così fan tutte" — better than Böhm...?

The Third Man - Wikipedia

Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles & Trevor Howard are all superb in Carol Reed's film, "The Third Man" — based on a novel by Graham Greene — set in Vienna & possibly the greatest film noir of all time (1949)