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Horrible Hapsburgs: History in a bunker

Horrible Hapsburgs: History in a bunker

The Bunker Mödling on the outskirts of Vienna is staging a macabre show of nasty moments in six centuries of the imperial ruling family.

Highlights are a transvestite archduke, an epileptic imbecile and the world-resounding apparent double suicide.

Organisers say they are besieged by Japanese visitors.

 

 

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