The Queen of England just recently eclipsed Kaiser Franz Joseph as one of the longest European monarchs on the throne. .' Unlike the Queen, who is a figure head, Franz Joseph had authority. When he died in 1916, he had been on the throne for about sixty years. People grew up, lived and died knowing nothing but him as the embodiment of the state. For decades, it was his name and picture that was on every official issuance including stamps and currency. When he died, it was more than just one crowned head getting replaced by another. HIs death, and the war going badly, it was like a world was collapsing.
In Italy we have "Il gattopardo", a book (then movie) wich is differnt from Radetzkymarsch in a lot of ways, but it is also about the collapse of the old world seen through the eyes of nobility, in this case the sicilian "Tomasi di Lampedusa" family during the Expedition of the Thousand
And with him, the Austro-Hungarian monarchy effectively died. He was the last thing to hold the empire together. Pretty sure that had he still lived by the end of WW1 the empire would've continued to exist but with him gone there was nothing to hold it together as his successor didn't command the same amount of respect and loyalty.
I really doubt it, he was very popular among his subjects, especially at the end of his reign but even under him AH had a huge problem with nationalists of all kinds, even among the Germans many despised the empire for it's multi ethnicity
His popularity had gone during the WW1. A plenty of people died because of him since 1850's he was clever when he avoided the wars between 1867-1914. Entente powers already made secret agreements about division of Habsburg and Ottoman Empires.
I would say it died already in 1914/1915 - when the extent of military incompetence became apparent, Austro-Hungary was reasonably stable after the 1867 compromise that gave Hungarians an equal position and Poles autonomy within the Austrian 'half'. Sure, the arrangement was flawed by elevating only Hungarians and thus leading to political stalemates in many areas. However, there were ideas to include other nationalities too ("The United States of Austria"). What destroyed it was the very ill-fated decision to invade Serbia, the unsuccessful war undermined the authority of the monarchy, even among ethnic Austrians. Without WW I, it would much longer. Still, it proved more resilient than the Russian Empire which collapsed more than a year earlier and suffered a revolution in 1905.
@@JanuszKrysztofiak It's true Austria-Hungary already had a lot of internal struggles by that time and was already at the brink of dissolution but I believe that Francis Joseph was something like the last nail holding it all together because of the loyalty most of his subjects had to the old Emperor. Not necessarily because he or his policies had always been popular - in fact it was the opposite - but because in his old age he embodied the idea of the "father of the nation". He was an old man filled with a great sense of duty who had had to endure his fair share of misfortune (execution of his brother, suicide of his son, assassination of his wife and assassination of his nephew) so I believe that many empathised with him and were unwilling to revolt against their "old father" and cause him more distress. Once he was dead however there was nothing holding them back anymore and even if Austria-Hungary had won the war the Empire would've probably collapsed anyway.
i don' t think so. During the 1919 Versailles treaty negotiations, French prime minister Clemenceau wanted the habsburg empire dismembered and wiped off the map. he nearly got his wish. If you look at any map pre-1914, Austria's sphere of influence was huge. in Central and Eastern Europe there were only three countries that all shared borders with each other - Germany, Russia, and Austria--hungary. Today's Austria is a shadow of its former expanse, with Vienna looking like the head of a giant on the body of a toddler.
The story ends with a band playing "Radetzky Marsch". The same tune was chosen by Ist. Szabó for his masterpiece "Oberst Redl" of 1985, at the beginning & end credits of the film.
Blessed Karl succeeded to the thrones in November 1916 following the death of his granduncle, Franz Joseph. He made secret attempts to negotiate Austria-Hungary's exit from the First World War but was unsuccessful. His cause for Canonization has been introduced together with that of Zita. The Great War sought to & succeeded in overthrowinh the Catholic monarchy together with the Christian social order. We pray for the restoration of both!
“Not many mourned the death of the Habsburg monarchy in 1918; far more rejoiced… And yet it had managed to exist for many centuries. The reason for this was that the Monarchy, or something very much like it, was felt to be necessary by most of the peoples who lived under it as well as by rival Powers. This was not due to any Austrian magic; it was due to the nature of the Empire; and the nature of the Empire was inherent in the structure of central and south-eastern Europe… The great Bohemian patriot, Palacky, said that if the Habsburg Empire had not existed it would have been necessary to invent it." -Edward Crankshaw
There was an article I read some years ago about the funeral of Empress Zita. During the Anklopfzeremonie they read out here titles, one of which was Duchess of Auschwitz and Zator. Had the Empire not collapsed, we would not have seen the rise of Nazism nor the horrors it brought, including Auschwitz.
The empire was on the verge of collapse even without the war. NOW if the emperor was successfully able to transform the empire into a republic, as he planned to stave off civil war, maybe. A somewhat Democratic Austria-Hungary Confederation may not join Nazi Germany.
@@kissmy_butt1302 Karl I planned to implement a federal constitutional monarchy, not a republic. Rather fitting that the Habsburgs are pretty big Eurofederalists these days.
How silly to assume the horrors of the death camps like Ausschwitz could only emerge specifically in those places. The german and british empire both used concentration camps decades before the german fascists did and an Austro-Hungarian empire instead of the regular one would not have stopped the nazis from murdering Jews. Just maybe in different locations.
@@alpha3488 I don't know about you. But I do draw a line between concentration camps, which I understand to be prisoner labour camps, and extermination camps. I think the extermination camps are a fairly unique Nazi phenomenon. I won't justify concentration camps. Nevertheless, I would draw a line between basically enslaving a captive population to get them to do chores the rest of your populace either prefer not to do or have other duties they need to attend to that the prisoners can't instead, like soldiering, and setting everything up like the regular concentration camps, but with the goal of eliminating the captive population as quickly and as efficiently as possible. Slavery is heinous, yes. But an act of genocide is basically the violation of the 6 th Commandment on a massive scale. I haven't yet found any justification from the Nazi side that I find credible to justify this act. The fact that they, upon seeing that the war is lost, try to destroy the evidence and things is a form of confirmation that their own conscience testifies against them that what they are doing is a sin against their own souls. I am of the personal opinion that irrespective of circumstance, one ought never to sin against one's own soul, even on pains of death. If something feels off about the situation, I personally believe that investigation of what exactly one's conscience is protesting is in order. And if the root cause is found, attempt to follow through with a remedial measure. If successful, the error signal should go away and peace and joy should return. If a personal attempt to fix the problem fails, the seeking out of a trusted second pair of eyes and another body of knowledge and experience in the form of a fellow Christian might be in order. And through prayer and reading of the Word of God, the Light might shine, and the issue might get pinpointed. Then, the issue can get resolved. If everyone did that, we shouldn't see atrocities of the order we have previously seen. Nevertheless, this kind of process takes time and space and a somewhat peaceful situation. It is also not well known. Therefore, in an age of mass distraction and information overload, the majority are most likely to miss out on this vital information, and perform and commit to actions against their own best interests. Actions they will regret and end up with consequences they can't live with. If the leaders of Nazism didn't throw all their eggs into the "we are most definitely going to win, therefore, we will be the writers of history" basket, they might have realised that their actions warrant their deaths, and would have learnt to stop and reconsider what they are doing. But emotion and mass hysteria got the better of them. All sense of reason and proportion was lost. They no longer sought peace with their neighbours but decided to pursue total war. The result can only be death. This is regrettable. It was an attitude problem that they could have worked on to make them better neighbours and better pleasing to God.
@@zhouwuThe Book of Genesis has a lot of references to tribes that for some reason no longer exist and the reason for them not existing is God personally wiping them out and leaving only a single sentence saying they existed and no more...
Quite by happenstance I experienced the poignancy of the Schonbrunn gardens in the rain, its paths covered in fall's rotting leaves. I recognized it without even seeing the palace
@@ChickenDelivering most probably! Would there be any way you could share the series with me? I've been trying unsuccesfully to get my hand on it, since I'm a big fan of the novel.
@@alexanderw.648 meinst du hötzendorf und die Generäle vom Deutschen reich ja die waren Kriegstreiber aber nicht der kaiser Franz Josef im Gegenteil er war der letzte der Krieg wollte er wurde dennoch psychisch extrem depressiv weil der Thronfolger franz Ferdinand und dazu noch die sissi starben beide durch drecks anarchistischen Idioten Und als er erfahren hatte das es was mit Serbien zu tun hatte zug er leider das Schwert hätte ich aber auch gemacht was will den serbien ausrichten wenn russland nicht da gewesen wäre hätte es ganz anders Verlaufen
O imperador está morto, levando com ele toda uma era que foi substituída por fragmentos de países sem nenhuma expressão ou importância. Deus o tenha em bom lugar, Franz Joseph, imperador da Áustria-hungria.
Can someone please explain to me what I saw? I saw this older gentleman with a Prussian looking moustache carrying an umbrella ☔☂️ in a crowd with other people carrying umbrellas in the midst of the rain. And a carriage drawn by horses show up. And the carriage driver opens the door for the passenger. The passenger comes out and everyone bows down. Then, the majority walk off, or follow the passenger or something (I couldn't make out exactly what was going on). But the older man with the moustache stayed behind. What just happened? What was the one person talking to the other person about? Why did everyone else walk off and leave the poor older man there by himself without any company? Can anyone please explain what I just saw?
It’s the end of a TV version of a book by Joseph Roth called The Radetsky March (which is the music you hear with the closing titles. It’s emblematic of the later Empire). You see the Emperor Franz Joseph about to die (the priests come to give him extreme unction) and the old man who is one of the main protagonists, dies shortly after the Emperor.
@@zhouwu Yeah you should read Roth's novel. The old man you see is Baron von Trotta, his father had saved the young emperors life at the battle of Solferino. As a reward he had received knighthood. Fast forward and the 1st WW broke out and the Baron just got the news that his son had fallen. A polish count (a good friend of Trottas son) who went crazy under artillery fire and is in an asylum lets the Baron come and tells him that the emperor is dying. He says god just told him. So Baron Trotta goes there and sure enough the emperor is dying. The crippled soldier says "now he has to confess to an ordinary Capuchin monk" and the old man in front of Trotta says " what does he have to confess anyway" and now Trotta responds "war is also a sin", basically breaking with the emperor/system. He says to himself "the Trottas saved the emperors life, therefore he cannot outlive us". The emperor dies and the Baron dies shortly after from a broken heart.
@@TheMundusvultdecipi Very moving. Thank you. I'm sure it's even more moving to German speakers, whose own ancestors were involved in these conflicts and were affected by the decisions of the Emperor and of all the others.
At the end of the novel, it is raining when Trotta dies. My German literature lecturer said in class that this is an example of "pathetic fallacy" - ie. rain happening to fall during sad events.
Comment le mauvais genie prussien vint à bout du vieil empire...Par deux fois l'Allemagne entraina l'Autriche sur la voie aventureuse de la guerre et du déshonneur ! Cette civilisation brillante qui rayonna à travers l'Europe de la grande Marie-Therese à François Joseph marqua incontestablement le continent européen tant au plan politique que culturel . A relire " le monde d'hier" de Zweig pour se replonger avec un brin de nostalgie dans cette époque passionnante. Pour la personne qui ne semble pas comprendre les dernières images , on lui precisera que quelques viennois attendent sous la pluie l'agonie de François Joseph , devant le château de Schônnbrunn , résidence de L'empereur. On lui apporte le viatique ( le sacrement des mourants) ...la fin d'un monde , effectivement, puisque ces images ne peuvent plus etre décryptées par nos contemporains !!!!
Franz Josef was good man but pretty bad Emperor. He should have resigned during stabilizing situation after defeat Austria army at Hradec Králové (König Graz) at 1866. Only new Emperor was chance for surviving Austria.
I do not think the removal of the Hapsburgs...the saintly Karl was right! The Germans dragged Austria Hungary into the war and from 1916 onwards coerced them to fight with threats...Emperor Karl was negotiating peace through Pope Benedict XVI.
Wrong, the Austrians or better their politicians started the war and dragged the Germans in. And Italians prevented the earlier End of the war, because they wanted all of their claims and didn´t back down....
@@felixjohnsens3201 well Germany was partially responsible, because kaiser Wilhelm gave Austria a "blank check" of support without which the Austrians wouldn't have declared war on Serbia. Ironically the only person who could have prevented the war was assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914...
@@Vampirewolfking The Austrians had declared war even without Germany and by the way, at the moment Germany gave them the "blank check" Austria had a legitimate reason for war. But Austria missed this opportunity for only a small war because they were incompetent.
![[Radetzkymarsch: DVD video] Franz Joseph Trotta visits the Russian border garrison](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/HeDHtzZ0rJs/mqdefault.jpg)
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The Queen of England just recently eclipsed Kaiser Franz Joseph as one of the longest European monarchs on the throne. .'
Unlike the Queen, who is a figure head, Franz Joseph had authority. When he died in 1916, he had been on the throne for about sixty years. People grew up, lived and died knowing nothing but him as the embodiment of the state. For decades, it was his name and picture that was on every official issuance including stamps and currency.
When he died, it was more than just one crowned head getting replaced by another. HIs death, and the war going badly, it was like a world was collapsing.
Ummm... You missed one word: "Lived" Queen Victoria was not a long monarch, she barely made five feet.
@@KylleinMacKellerann Yes, badly worded, but i'm referring to the current Queen, actually.
Louis 14 had a 72 years reign and was an absolute monarch
@@iagosevatar4865 but he became king when he was a child, so the first decade or so was spent under a regency.
He lived too long....Serbia.
Beautiful...such respect for the Sacrament!
In Italy we have "Il gattopardo", a book (then movie) wich is differnt from Radetzkymarsch in a lot of ways, but it is also about the collapse of the old world seen through the eyes of nobility, in this case the sicilian "Tomasi di Lampedusa" family during the Expedition of the Thousand
there was also a movie on it iirc
And with him, the Austro-Hungarian monarchy effectively died. He was the last thing to hold the empire together. Pretty sure that had he still lived by the end of WW1 the empire would've continued to exist but with him gone there was nothing to hold it together as his successor didn't command the same amount of respect and loyalty.
I really doubt it, he was very popular among his subjects, especially at the end of his reign but even under him AH had a huge problem with nationalists of all kinds, even among the Germans many despised the empire for it's multi ethnicity
His popularity had gone during the WW1. A plenty of people died because of him since 1850's he was clever when he avoided the wars between 1867-1914. Entente powers already made secret agreements about division of Habsburg and Ottoman Empires.
I would say it died already in 1914/1915 - when the extent of military incompetence became apparent, Austro-Hungary was reasonably stable after the 1867 compromise that gave Hungarians an equal position and Poles autonomy within the Austrian 'half'. Sure, the arrangement was flawed by elevating only Hungarians and thus leading to political stalemates in many areas. However, there were ideas to include other nationalities too ("The United States of Austria"). What destroyed it was the very ill-fated decision to invade Serbia, the unsuccessful war undermined the authority of the monarchy, even among ethnic Austrians. Without WW I, it would much longer. Still, it proved more resilient than the Russian Empire which collapsed more than a year earlier and suffered a revolution in 1905.
@@JanuszKrysztofiak It's true Austria-Hungary already had a lot of internal struggles by that time and was already at the brink of dissolution but I believe that Francis Joseph was something like the last nail holding it all together because of the loyalty most of his subjects had to the old Emperor. Not necessarily because he or his policies had always been popular - in fact it was the opposite - but because in his old age he embodied the idea of the "father of the nation". He was an old man filled with a great sense of duty who had had to endure his fair share of misfortune (execution of his brother, suicide of his son, assassination of his wife and assassination of his nephew) so I believe that many empathised with him and were unwilling to revolt against their "old father" and cause him more distress. Once he was dead however there was nothing holding them back anymore and even if Austria-Hungary had won the war the Empire would've probably collapsed anyway.
i don' t think so. During the 1919 Versailles treaty negotiations, French prime minister Clemenceau wanted the habsburg empire dismembered and wiped off the map.
he nearly got his wish. If you look at any map pre-1914, Austria's sphere of influence was huge. in Central and Eastern Europe there were only three countries that all shared borders with each other - Germany, Russia, and Austria--hungary.
Today's Austria is a shadow of its former expanse, with Vienna looking like the head of a giant on the body of a toddler.
The story ends with a band playing "Radetzky Marsch". The same tune was chosen by Ist. Szabó for his masterpiece "Oberst Redl" of 1985, at the beginning & end credits of the film.
That music tends to feature in any film or TV show involving Austria-Hungary.
Blessed Karl succeeded to the thrones in November 1916 following the death of his granduncle, Franz Joseph. He made secret attempts to negotiate Austria-Hungary's exit from the First World War but was unsuccessful.
His cause for Canonization has been introduced together with that of Zita.
The Great War sought to & succeeded in overthrowinh the Catholic monarchy together with the Christian social order.
We pray for the restoration of both!
@پیاده نظام خان cru
And because of this he is a saint
amen, the world started going wrong with the attacks on monarchy
Rest in Peace Your Majesty!!!
Viribus Unitis!!!
Bellissimo il romanzo, e bello questo sceneggiato d'epoca.
“Not many mourned the death of the Habsburg monarchy in 1918; far more rejoiced… And yet it had managed to exist for many centuries. The reason for this was that the Monarchy, or something very much like it, was felt to be necessary by most of the peoples who lived under it as well as by rival Powers. This was not due to any Austrian magic; it was due to the nature of the Empire; and the nature of the Empire was inherent in the structure of central and south-eastern Europe… The great Bohemian patriot, Palacky, said that if the Habsburg Empire had not existed it would have been necessary to invent it." -Edward Crankshaw
"The second cardinal tragedy was the complete break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire by the Treaties of St. Germain and Trianon." -Winston Churchill
There was an article I read some years ago about the funeral of Empress Zita. During the Anklopfzeremonie they read out here titles, one of which was Duchess of Auschwitz and Zator. Had the Empire not collapsed, we would not have seen the rise of Nazism nor the horrors it brought, including Auschwitz.
The empire was on the verge of collapse even without the war. NOW if the emperor was successfully able to transform the empire into a republic, as he planned to stave off civil war, maybe. A somewhat Democratic Austria-Hungary Confederation may not join Nazi Germany.
@@kissmy_butt1302
Karl I planned to implement a federal constitutional monarchy, not a republic.
Rather fitting that the Habsburgs are pretty big Eurofederalists these days.
How silly to assume the horrors of the death camps like Ausschwitz could only emerge specifically in those places. The german and british empire both used concentration camps decades before the german fascists did and an Austro-Hungarian empire instead of the regular one would not have stopped the nazis from murdering Jews. Just maybe in different locations.
@@alpha3488
I don't know about you. But I do draw a line between concentration camps, which I understand to be prisoner labour camps, and extermination camps. I think the extermination camps are a fairly unique Nazi phenomenon.
I won't justify concentration camps. Nevertheless, I would draw a line between basically enslaving a captive population to get them to do chores the rest of your populace either prefer not to do or have other duties they need to attend to that the prisoners can't instead, like soldiering, and setting everything up like the regular concentration camps, but with the goal of eliminating the captive population as quickly and as efficiently as possible.
Slavery is heinous, yes. But an act of genocide is basically the violation of the 6 th Commandment on a massive scale. I haven't yet found any justification from the Nazi side that I find credible to justify this act.
The fact that they, upon seeing that the war is lost, try to destroy the evidence and things is a form of confirmation that their own conscience testifies against them that what they are doing is a sin against their own souls.
I am of the personal opinion that irrespective of circumstance, one ought never to sin against one's own soul, even on pains of death. If something feels off about the situation, I personally believe that investigation of what exactly one's conscience is protesting is in order. And if the root cause is found, attempt to follow through with a remedial measure. If successful, the error signal should go away and peace and joy should return. If a personal attempt to fix the problem fails, the seeking out of a trusted second pair of eyes and another body of knowledge and experience in the form of a fellow Christian might be in order. And through prayer and reading of the Word of God, the Light might shine, and the issue might get pinpointed. Then, the issue can get resolved.
If everyone did that, we shouldn't see atrocities of the order we have previously seen. Nevertheless, this kind of process takes time and space and a somewhat peaceful situation. It is also not well known. Therefore, in an age of mass distraction and information overload, the majority are most likely to miss out on this vital information, and perform and commit to actions against their own best interests. Actions they will regret and end up with consequences they can't live with.
If the leaders of Nazism didn't throw all their eggs into the "we are most definitely going to win, therefore, we will be the writers of history" basket, they might have realised that their actions warrant their deaths, and would have learnt to stop and reconsider what they are doing.
But emotion and mass hysteria got the better of them. All sense of reason and proportion was lost. They no longer sought peace with their neighbours but decided to pursue total war.
The result can only be death. This is regrettable. It was an attitude problem that they could have worked on to make them better neighbours and better pleasing to God.
@@zhouwuThe Book of Genesis has a lot of references to tribes that for some reason no longer exist and the reason for them not existing is God personally wiping them out and leaving only a single sentence saying they existed and no more...
Quite by happenstance I experienced the poignancy of the Schonbrunn gardens in the rain, its paths covered in fall's rotting leaves. I recognized it without even seeing the palace
That is some raw weather during that shoot .
Franz Joseph apparently knew the languages of all the nationalities he ruled over. He would visit the troops and speak to them in their own tongue.
All 11 of them? I doubt it. You probably mean he could speak Hungarian.
@@HermitKing731 Not quite 11, but
"Franz Josef, besides German, knew Latin, ancient Greek, French, Hungarian, Czech, Italian and Polish."
La fin d'un monde, la fin d'une vie.
The end of a world, the end of a life.
SUPER_SUPER VIDEO_MUSIC
DANKE DIR MEIN FREUND -
LIEBEN GRÜSSEN:))~sara~
Do you have acces to the whole series? I would be interested to watch it
I recently bought a dvd. But maybe it was a program for the Austrian domestic market, so there are no German subtitles, let alone English subtitles...
@@ChickenDelivering most probably! Would there be any way you could share the series with me? I've been trying unsuccesfully to get my hand on it, since I'm a big fan of the novel.
1914-1918 se termino el mundo de la Bella Epoca
2020 se termino otro mundo
THX, even if it's very sad!
Long live the Emperor!
Dein "Kaiser" hat europa in den Krieg gestürzt und die Menschen gegeneinander Aufgehetzt.
@@alexanderw.648 Nonsense, this emperor is least of all to blame.
@@alexanderw.648 meinst du hötzendorf und die Generäle vom Deutschen reich ja die waren Kriegstreiber aber nicht der kaiser Franz Josef im Gegenteil er war der letzte der Krieg wollte er wurde dennoch psychisch extrem depressiv weil der Thronfolger franz Ferdinand und dazu noch die sissi starben beide durch drecks anarchistischen Idioten
Und als er erfahren hatte das es was mit Serbien zu tun hatte zug er leider das Schwert hätte ich aber auch gemacht was will den serbien ausrichten wenn russland nicht da gewesen wäre hätte es ganz anders
Verlaufen
This 1994 TV series was 4 hours long. You had better like German.
So what's not to like about German? The language is beautiful, The problem has always been the low-grade paper hanger who abused it.
Dem 21.November 1916 am 86 Jahren alte Gestôrb !
Gott erhalte den Kaiser
Am Arsch...🥴🤛🏻...
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@@Ge-Coleslawgenau mein reden 😂
I thought I recognized Max von Sydow. Outstanding actor.
Nobody really hated him.
And when he died Habsburg Austria died with him.
The age of empires had ended. We don't mourn them.
@@zyxw2000 yes we do
How can I watch this series / movie in full?
My Country tis' of the
Austria Hungary
Obey thine king.
Die Verfilmung nur halbwegs gelungen.....aber Max von Sydow gelingt die Darstellung des alten Trotta
The ols man with mutton chop deard and umbrella is the emeperor?
Where i can Watch this series?
La marcha del ejército de Chile
Где можно посмотреть весь фильм?
Anyone know where to find Radetzky marsch theme movie version.I like the ending theme.
that music is was way too happy
O imperador está morto, levando com ele toda uma era que foi substituída por fragmentos de países sem nenhuma expressão ou importância. Deus o tenha em bom lugar, Franz Joseph, imperador da Áustria-hungria.
You're praising a totalitarian dictator? The age of empires is over. Austria and Hungary indeed have importance today.
What happened to trotta family? 😂
You can read it in The Emperor's Tomb [Die Kapuzinergruft] from Joseph Roth. ;)
Can someone please explain to me what I saw? I saw this older gentleman with a Prussian looking moustache carrying an umbrella ☔☂️ in a crowd with other people carrying umbrellas in the midst of the rain. And a carriage drawn by horses show up. And the carriage driver opens the door for the passenger. The passenger comes out and everyone bows down. Then, the majority walk off, or follow the passenger or something (I couldn't make out exactly what was going on). But the older man with the moustache stayed behind.
What just happened? What was the one person talking to the other person about? Why did everyone else walk off and leave the poor older man there by himself without any company?
Can anyone please explain what I just saw?
It’s the end of a TV version of a book by Joseph Roth called The Radetsky March (which is the music you hear with the closing titles. It’s emblematic of the later Empire). You see the Emperor Franz Joseph about to die (the priests come to give him extreme unction) and the old man who is one of the main protagonists, dies shortly after the Emperor.
@@spacestation52
Oh, wow! What a moving scene! My respects to the both of them!
@@zhouwu Yeah you should read Roth's novel. The old man you see is Baron von Trotta, his father had saved the young emperors life at the battle of Solferino. As a reward he had received knighthood. Fast forward and the 1st WW broke out and the Baron just got the news that his son had fallen. A polish count (a good friend of Trottas son) who went crazy under artillery fire and is in an asylum lets the Baron come and tells him that the emperor is dying. He says god just told him. So Baron Trotta goes there and sure enough the emperor is dying. The crippled soldier says "now he has to confess to an ordinary Capuchin monk" and the old man in front of Trotta says " what does he have to confess anyway" and now Trotta responds "war is also a sin", basically breaking with the emperor/system. He says to himself "the Trottas saved the emperors life, therefore he cannot outlive us". The emperor dies and the Baron dies shortly after from a broken heart.
@@TheMundusvultdecipi
Very moving. Thank you. I'm sure it's even more moving to German speakers, whose own ancestors were involved in these conflicts and were affected by the decisions of the Emperor and of all the others.
Meu bisavô lutou nesta guerra. Cansado da guerra e com fim do Império e ele pegou a família para o Brasil, deixando tudo para trás.
And now the Queen Elizabeth II
At least he could have chosen a sunny day to die.
Eh no, he couldn't unless you are talking about suicide.
At the end of the novel, it is raining when Trotta dies. My German literature lecturer said in class that this is an example of "pathetic fallacy" - ie. rain happening to fall during sad events.
Comment le mauvais genie prussien vint à bout du vieil empire...Par deux fois l'Allemagne entraina l'Autriche sur la voie aventureuse de la guerre et du déshonneur ! Cette civilisation brillante qui rayonna à travers l'Europe de la grande Marie-Therese à François Joseph marqua incontestablement le continent européen tant au plan politique que culturel . A relire " le monde d'hier" de Zweig pour se replonger avec un brin de nostalgie dans cette époque passionnante. Pour la personne qui ne semble pas comprendre les dernières images , on lui precisera que quelques viennois attendent sous la pluie l'agonie de François Joseph , devant le château de Schônnbrunn , résidence de
L'empereur. On lui apporte le viatique ( le sacrement des mourants) ...la fin d'un monde , effectivement, puisque ces images ne peuvent plus etre décryptées par nos contemporains !!!!
Franz Josef was good man but pretty bad Emperor. He should have resigned during stabilizing situation after defeat Austria army at Hradec Králové (König Graz) at 1866. Only new Emperor was chance for surviving Austria.
I do not think the removal of the Hapsburgs...the saintly Karl was right! The Germans dragged Austria Hungary into the war and from 1916 onwards coerced them to fight with threats...Emperor Karl was negotiating peace through Pope Benedict XVI.
Wrong, the Austrians or better their politicians started the war and dragged the Germans in. And Italians prevented the earlier End of the war, because they wanted all of their claims and didn´t back down....
@@felixjohnsens3201 well Germany was partially responsible, because kaiser Wilhelm gave Austria a "blank check" of support without which the Austrians wouldn't have declared war on Serbia.
Ironically the only person who could have prevented the war was assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914...
@@Vampirewolfking The Austrians had declared war even without Germany and by the way, at the moment Germany gave them the "blank check" Austria had a legitimate reason for war. But Austria missed this opportunity for only a small war because they were incompetent.
Benedict XVI was elevated to the papacy 2005… Benedict XV was the pope during the First World War …
The people of Austria overthrew the monarchy in 1918 so it doesnt really matter what you think was right. The people have spoken.
Gott erhte Kaiser
Why don't you like Putin?..
Kaiser kaputt! 😂