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“Side-by-side, 1914”, illustration, 1917

The two halves of the Austro-Hungarian Empire are shown as armour-clad warriors with their coats of arms side-by-side against an undefined “enemy”.

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Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur-und Betriebsges.m.b.H./Fotograf: Alexander E. Koller

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    War as a ‘way out’?

    ‘If the Monarchy is to go, then at least it should go with honour.’ This saying attributed to Franz Joseph is often quoted as being symptomatic of the general exhaustion of the traditional elites of the Habsburg monarchy.