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Entry: Farewell, Dear Readers! Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/farewell_dear_readers#13148 Post contents: Thank you for an interesting question, my good Herr Hoermann--and for many such worthy contributions to our Comments section. My first secular loyalty is to the Royal and Imperial House of Habsburg, which ruled my ancestors for the better part of a thousand years-- and who have the best claim of anyone to the dormant crown of the Holy Roman Empire. I feel a special fraternal love for the German peoples of Europe, but also a devotion to my fellow Slavic, Magyar, Jewish, Gypsy, and other subjects of this benevolent dynasty. I thank Dr. Cathey for his helpful film recommendations; I will buy the DVDs today! In return, I'd like to offer another cinematic suggestion: The Ralph Fiennes film "Sunshine," which depicts three generations of a productive, patriotic Jewish family in Hungary, from 1910-1955. I have never seen the horror of the 20th Century so well depicted as in this film, which traces the appalling decline from the civility of Kaiser Franz Josef, through the Bolshevik coup of Bela Kun, the regency of that traitor (to Kaiser Karl I) Admiral Horthy, the butcheries of the Nazi Arrow Cross, and finally the Stalinist purges of the 1950s. Anyone who believes in the myth of progress is only one DVD from the truth. Sent at: 2008 11 23