"He who fights with monsters must see to it that he doesn't thereby become a monster." *John Leake* A few years before he died in 1999, Alexander von Üxküll-Gyllenband lived just down the street from me in Vienna. He was the first cousin of Claus von Stauffenberg, who unsuccessfully tried to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944. I occasionally had afternoon tea with him in his modest apartment, and we talked about history and world…
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