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PART 1: GLIMPSES



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Who do you believe was the most important figure in the early history of Danubia? Explain your answer below.

A) Josip Broz Tito
B) Felix Leitner
C) Franz Adlerssohn
D) Bela Kun

From a Danubian exam paper

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General Leitner - 'We Fight On'

From the Vienna Herald, 1st January 1943

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GENERAL MILITARY ORDER 67890

We advance. The Germans were savaged at Prague and the Italians at Venice. We fight no longer for survival. We fight for revenge. All our territory still under enemy occupation is to be liberated. All units are authorised to begin full-scale attacks into enemy territory. Drive to the last barrel of fuel. Fire to the last round of ammunition. Fight to the last drop of blood!

General Felix Leitner, Marshall of Vienna

Signed 17 June 1944

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...The major Viennese museums are all excellent, the result of decades of cultural funding. From the Revolutionary Museum to the Palace of Arts and Sciences, Vienna is a major place for any regular museum-goer, and the nightlife is good as well, the result of recent loosening of restrictions on clubs and bars (the result in turn of the recent loosening of certain economic restrictions). This city straddling the Danube also contains many fine examples of architecture, both 19th-Century Austro-Hungarian, and the more inventive Interbellum and Post-War styles. In short, Vienna, Danubia's beating heart (not to sell short the secondary capital in Budapest) is a wonder of the world...

From the Rough Guide to Danubia
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