Kurt Waldheim

摘要

Once, in more glorious times, the empire of Austria stretched from Prague and Cracow to Trent, below the Dolomites, and Ragusa on the Adriatic. Vienna drew the intelligentsia of Europe. Hungarian wheat fed the Austrians, and Bohemian coal kept their economy booming. Dozens of tribes and peoples clustered under the Habsburg wing, forming Europe's first and last buffer against the Turks.