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…“ich [Doktor Skowronnek] glaube, sie konnten beide [der Kaiser und Herr von Trotta] Österreich nicht überleben.“
March 22, 2024 at 5:45 AM
Thank you Reem!
A great family story. I don't like putting #Radetzymarsch aside.
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March 22, 2024 at 5:40 AM
The Emperor cannot survive the Trotta! Thought the District Commissioner. He cannot survive them! They saced his life, and he will not survive the Trottas.
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March 22, 2024 at 1:59 AM
All that remains is for us to relate the final days of District Commissioner Trotta. They passed almost like a single day.
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March 22, 2024 at 1:58 AM
What did Herr von Trotta care about the hundred thousand dead who had since followed his son?
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March 21, 2024 at 5:47 PM
And he kept the letter from Major Zoglauer, now also deceased, in his inside pocket: every day he read it and it retained its terrible freshness and novelty, just like a funeral mound that is kept and tended by grieving hands.
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March 21, 2024 at 5:47 PM
So simple and so inappropriate literary treatment in the primers of the K-and-K elementary schools of Austria was the death of the grandson of the hero of Solferino. Lieutenant Trotta died, not with sword in hand, but **spoiler**
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March 21, 2024 at 5:47 PM
That was the end of Lieutenant
Carl Joseph, Baron Von Trotta.
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March 21, 2024 at 5:46 PM
One by one to begin with, then in groupd, the men charged up the slope, shots rang out, and the men fell. The enemy cavalry the other side of the embankment shot at the thirsty men, and more and more thirsty men ran towards the fatal well.
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March 21, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Our sole remaining task is to describe the district captain’s final days. They slipped by virtually like one day. Time flowed past him, a broad, even river, murmuring monotonously.

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March 21, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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„Der Krieg der österreichischen Armee begann mit Militärgerichten.“

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„Der Leutnant Trotta starb nicht mit der Waffe, sondern mit zwei Wassereimern in der Hand.“
March 21, 2024 at 7:43 AM
That morning I saw many hundreds of ravens. I've never seen so many before. Strange ravens, coming from distant parts. I think they've come from Russia. We have a saying in my language that the ravens are the prophets among the birds.
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March 20, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Aren't you afraid? asked Trotta. Onufri was not afraid. He was staying at his sister's. The gendarmes passed through the village once a week without looking around. They were Ukranian as well, peasants like Onufri.
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March 20, 2024 at 4:13 PM
The military Trotta had to be buried and mournful. You didn't put a body into the ground without tears.
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March 20, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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„Man verstand Onufrij gut. Er hatte dem Leutnant gedient wie der Leutnant dem Kaiser. Es gab kein Vaterland mehr. Es zerbrach, es zersplitterte."
March 20, 2024 at 6:56 AM
And the regiment, in all due humility and obedience, hereby takes the liberty, while the Captain of Horse was of the opinion that the 'And' was incorrect, and there was something not quite right about the' humility and obedience ' either.
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March 19, 2024 at 4:46 PM
He had no business with the
K - and - K army any more. That sort of thing was called 'desertion' and you were shot for it.
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March 19, 2024 at 4:45 PM
The Emperor, the white-beardded, forgetful old man with the crystal drop on the end of his nose, and old Herr von Trotta- they were Austria.
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March 19, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Every Sunday, Herr Nechwal's band played The Radetzky March. Once a week, on a Sunday, Austria still existed.
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March 19, 2024 at 4:45 PM
He eyed his gala tunic distrustfully, like a slow old horse who has spent years in the shady cool of his stables, and is suddenly forced to participate in a trotting race.
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March 19, 2024 at 4:44 PM
“Father,” Carl Joseph began. “I’m leaving the army.”
[…]
“After this disaster,” said the father, “that struck us two days ago, such an act amounts to . . . to . . . desertion.”

“The whole army has deserted,” Carl Joseph replied.
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March 19, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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„Das reine Silber seines Bartes färbte das grün gedämpfe Licht des Tages und den rötlichen Glanz des Teppichs. Es atmete die leuchtende Milde eines unbekannten, vielleicht eines jenseitigen Tags, der schon mitten im irdischen Leben Herrn von Trottas anbrach,

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March 19, 2024 at 3:41 PM
And so Herr von Trotta seemed like some character from a province that was historically rather than geographically remote, like a ghost from the Fatherland’s past, the embodied pang of a patriotic conscience.
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March 18, 2024 at 8:43 PM
And his experiences over the last few years had taught him that these same twittering birds were always to blame for his little episodes of forgetfulness.
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March 18, 2024 at 6:10 PM