In 1929, 75-year-oldย Prince Franz Iย succeeded to the throne. Franz had just marriedย Elisabeth von Gutmann, a wealthy woman from Vienna whose father was a Jewish businessman from Moravia. Although Liechtenstein had no official Nazi party , a Nazi sympathy movement arose within its National Union party. Local Liechtenstein Nazis identified Elisabeth as their Jewish "problem".
In March 1938, just after theย annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, Prince Franz named as regent his 31-year-old first cousin twice removed and heir-presumptive,ย Prince Franz Joseph. Franz died in July that year, and Franz Joseph succeeded to the throne. Franz Joseph II first moved to Liechtenstein in 1938, a few days after Austria's annexation.
Duringย World War II, Liechtenstein remained officially neutral, looking to neighbouring Switzerland for assistance and guidance, while family treasures from dynastic lands and possessions inย Bohemia,ย Moravia, andย Silesiaย were taken to Liechtenstein for safekeeping. At the close of the conflict,ย Czechoslovakiaย andย Poland, acting to seize what they considered to be German possessions, expropriated the entirety of the Liechtenstein dynasty's properties in those three regions. The expropriations (subject to modern legal dispute at theย International Court of Justice) included over 1,600ย km2(618ย sqย mi) of agricultural and forest land (most notably the UNESCO listedย LedniceโValtice Cultural Landscape), and several family castles and palaces.
In 2005 it was revealed that Jewish labourers from theย Strasshofย concentration camp, provided by theย SS, had worked on estates inย Austriaย owned by Liechtenstein's Princely House.
Sardar Akhtar Mengal is a politician from Balochistan who is the chairman of Balochistan National Party. If his land was equally distributed among every baloch in Pakistan, Iran and the Gulf, every Baloch would get about 2 Marla of Land.
Every family would get about 16 Marla of land, while on average every household would get 80 Marla of Land.
The first post is a lot of text with comments on history and politics but the rest are more pictures and less comments. I hope you don't find my attempts at humor offensive Nah, I don't care, feel free to be offended.
Here is the first post, the rest are linked in it - https://hobblife.com/BlogPost/9c659c46-f8c3-4bcb-3d5e-08d71ab834d4
Liechtensteiners, what did I get wrong and what did I get right?
Like its fellow small-state Luxembourg.
One possibility: Liechtenstein vetos the accession of Czechia and Slovakia until the sovereign Prince's hereditary lands in those countries are returned, increasing the size of the principality 10 fold. However, as the newly created enclaves and their surrounds are both with EU free-movement and Schengen free-travel areas, the change of flags flying over the castles is mostly ceremonial.
Good night, mortals
