Chapter Five -Heimat

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Chapter Five
Heimat
Vienna
1930-1932 
 
In this chapter Bekka and Alois go to school, the family spend the sumer at Uncle Fritz's summer house at  Falkenau in Czechoslovakia and learn practical skills; the family spend time in service together; Bekka learns more about Sisi and Franz Josef and Grandmamma, and makes a new - and Jewish - friend at school, from the famous  von Arnstein family, long connected with the Imperial family. and the families attend a special children's performance at the Opera.
 
We learn more about how Wolf acquired his ideaologies, why Sepp joined the SA and how he became Wolf's best friend; Himmler creates the SD and the Gestapo; Claus von Stauffenberg joins the Wehrmacht and meets his incredible wife Nina; and Dietrich Bonhoeffer becomes a pacifist and determines to be a theologian.
 
School Uniforms at the Akademisches Gymnasium:

Falkenau:

 Sisi with Rudolf and Gisele, Sisi and Franz Josef. She had all her children by the time she was 22:


Grandmamma and Grandpapa at their marriage, with the children:


  Papa and his beloved sister Grete, with their younger sisters and Grandmamma. Aunt Tiana, the Abbess, is the little girl in the hat:
Palais Arnstein, home of Bekka's best friend Helene:
 The Vienna State Opera House, where the children saw Die Zauberflöte:


 Sepp, Wolf, Rudolf Hess, and Himmler before 1930. Note that they are all wearing suits not uniforms, so likely before the Putsch:

 Claus and Nina:




 Dietrich as a theology student, and in 1934, when he was already a published author and a threat to the Nazis:



 The Jewish Community of Vienna - Discussing the history of the Jews in Vienna, toleration, and the von Arnstein connection with the Imperial family.
Hitler's early influences and how his ideology evolved from the Holocaust Encyclopaedia. Debunks some common myths. 
 Heinrich Himmler: Reichsfürher SS Documentary In English. Excellent (not sensational in tone or content.)
In Memory of Claus von Stauffenberg Lovely photos (and Green Day!) The poster is Brazilian. 
Interview with Claus' grandson about him and the film Valkyrie Philipp is the son of Konstanze, who was born after her father was murdered, and looks very like his grandfather!
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Memories and Perspectives a close and intimate portrait of Bonhoeffer.

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