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by preisschild 58 days ago
Fun Fact, a Habsburg was even blamed for the dissolution of the German Democratic Republic

> After his fall, Honecker said of Otto von Habsburg in relation to the summer of 1989, "this Habsburg drove the nail into my coffin."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-European_Picnic

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Weirdly enough, Honecker was unrepentant until his death. They didn't put him on trial in the unified Germany, because the law in Germany is intentionally soft towards the terminally ill.