https://www.the-american-interest.com/2011/07/20/the-fading-shadow-of-the-habsburgs/
The American Interest
Some thoughts on the Austro-Hungarian empire’s legacy on the occasion of the passing of Otto von Habsburg.
For centuries the Habsburgs cast a gigantic shadow over a large part of Europe. Their empire ended cataclysmically in 1918. The shadow lingered for some decades after that, slowly fading under the blows of later cataclysms. Perhaps the time has now arrived when the shadow will disappear completely. Otto von Habsburg was the eldest son of Charles I, the last emperor of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Otto died on July 4, 2011, aged 98, in Poecking, Bavaria. If the monarchy had survived, he would have succeeded to the throne after his father. I read about his death in both