Uniting Europe After WWII
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Great Revolt of the Habsburgs
There was a lot of nostalgia around for the old system. It took a long while for the Habsburg successors to be allowed back into Austria. The whole notion that the Republic had been accepted by everybody didn't really happen until much later, after the Second World War. And so how did he become a thought leader, a philosopher of pan-Europeanism? Well, in a strange way, it's both him and his wife who do this, and that also is an extremely dramatic story.
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