About the book: 2021 / In his youth, Adolf Hitler lived in Vienna for five years. It was there and then that a hatred towards the ruling imperial family of the Habsburgs, a desire to take revenge on the disappeared empire, the murdered Archduke and his heirs, was finally formed. This became one of the main causes of the Second World War and the Holocaust. From the heights of power, Hitler brought down all his hatred of the Habsburgs and their motley empire on the sons of Franz Ferdinand, who openly opposed the Nazi party and its racist ideology. When Germany captured Austria in 1938, it was Maximilian and Ernst who became the first Austrians to be arrested by the Gestapo. Sent to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, the brothers went from the palace to the dungeon in a matter of hours. The women of the family, including the Archduke's only daughter, Princess Sophia of Hohenberg, entered into confrontation with Hitler. Their perseverance and courage in the face of betrayal, betrayal, torture and hunger helped the family survive both during the war and in difficult times of peace. In search of an answer to the question of why Hitler was so determined to eradicate the family of the murdered Archduke, the author of the book, James Longo, took ten spent years researching and talking with the descendants of the ruling house of Habsburg and eventually outlined in detail the history of the fearless struggle of the Franz Ferdinand family against the Fuhrer. Publishing design preserved in PDF A4 format.