Chapter Thirty-Nine -Kaiserhymne

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Chapter Thirty-Nine
Kaiserhymne
Villa Austria, Pöcking
3 July 2011
 
In this chapter, Bekka and Karl travel to Pöcking to bid farewell to Otto, who has come to the end of his long and eventful life. Like his father, he goes home with joy to his fathers, and tells Bekka that he will wait for her. The mainstay and guide of her long life, she and Karl share his story with the family. It is not goodbye, only a brief parting, and they are all certain of that in their deep, shared faith. 
 
Otto in the Hofburg Palace:
 Otto with his parents, walking Emperor Franz Josef to the Capuchin Crypt at age four: 
Otto's heart lies in the Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma in Hungary:
Otto von Habsburg brought to Imperial Crypt -News footage of his last journey
 
Now, for the Reveal: This story is something of a miracle, or a timeslip, as Bekka was not supposed to exist, and yet there she and Kalli were in pictures and film at Otto's wedding. When I asked my Sepp contact about this anomaly, he said, rather cryptically, 'people were often declared dead and disappeared,' meaning Ferdinand Karl, her father. We have seen this with Nazi fugitives: Martin Bormann, Rudolf Mildner, Adolf Eichmann among them. It raises the question historians (inculding me) often are asked: How do you know it is True? How do you know you are right? Carl Jung would and did say in his autobiography, 'it is all true, even if it never happened.' Meaning the psychological truth of the matter. But I leave you with this excellent discussion of historiography from Lewis of TIKHistory:
 

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