"charles vs hiller" Topic
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| weissenwolf | 12 May 2008 7:56 a.m. PST |
what was the problem between the archduke and freiherr hiller? i tend to side with charles after reading hiller going behind charles back to the kaiser. |
| Knight Templar | 12 May 2008 9:05 a.m. PST |
Hiller was an early version evolving eventually into Hitler. He was in a fairly embryonic stage in this period. There are those (though I do not agree with them) who believe that the next incarnation is already identified as Ahmadinejad: see the connection? |
| Knight Templar | 12 May 2008 9:09 a.m. PST |
Simply, though, it was a conflict of two personalities at opposite ends: revisionist (modernist) and conservative, Charles and Hiller. |
| anleiher | 12 May 2008 10:28 a.m. PST |
From what I have read, Hiller was an adept at playing the political game. The emperor was concerned with Charles' rising popularity in the army and this coupled with the innately conservative nature of the Vienna court caused the HK to constantly try to hamstring Charles' ambitions. Hiller was also not the general he thought himself to be. Ultimately, he would be sacked for his poor performance in the Italian campaign in 1813-14. All in all a noxious mix of personal vanity (Hiller), jealousy (the Emperor), and a conservative court came together to limit what Charles might have otherwise been able to bring about. |
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