Fifty-five years ago, in 1968, the streets of Prague were witnessing a similar scene to that of Budapest in the autumn of 1956. Otto von Habsburg followed the events in Czechoslovakia as closely as he had followed the revolution in Hungary twelve years before. The former heir to the throne, like other analysts, made a comparison between the two events early on.
The document published below is an assessment of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 written by Otto von Habsburg in 1966.
The study of our colleague Gergely Fejérdy titled “Otto von Habsburg and the 1956 Revolution” was published in the journal Századok of the Hungarian Historical Society.
The photo was taken of Otto von Habsburg at Christmas 1956 surrounded by his family in Pöcking, Austria. At the same time in New York Sándor Márai wrote a poem entitled Herald Angel:
