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1104 Notes 2221 Diary records by Lieutenant Eugen Lang (private collection, Vienna). 2222 Fiala, Letzte Offensive, 15, and Hanks, The End, 187. 2223 Ward, The Participation, 86. 2224 Schneider, Kriegserinnerungen, 544. 2225 KA, Schneller Tagebuch, 1229, 10.6.1918. 2226 Ibid., 1230, 12.6.1918. 2227 Hanks, The End, 207. 2228 Ibid., 215, and Anton Hainzl, Das ehemalige Egerländer Feldjägerbataillon Nr. 22 im Weltkrieg 1914– 1918 (Reichenberg, 1935), 227 et seqq. 2229 Hanks, The End, 247. 2230 Fiala, Letzte Offensive, 100. 2231 Letter from Archduke Joseph to General von Seeckt dated 4.8.1918, quoted in : Jedlicka, Ende und Anfang. Österreich 1918/19. Wien und die Bundesländer (=  Politik konkret, Salzburg, 1969), 18–23. 2232 Quoted from : Jedlicka, Ende und Anfang, 21. 2233 Peter Schiemer, Die Albatros-(Oeffag-)Jagdflugzeuge der k. u. k. Luftfahrttruppen (Graz, 1984), 217. 2234 Jansa, Ein österreichischer General, 413. 2235 Landwehr, Hunger, 229. 2236 Ibid., 233 et seq. 2237 Hanks, The End 91. 2238 Ibid., 260, and United States Army in World War 1917–1919 : Military Operations of the American Expeditionary Forces, Vol. VI (Washington, D.C., 1948), 529. 30. An Empire Resigns 2239 Kriegsarchiv (Austrian War Archives ; hereafter KA), Qualifikationslisten, Box 238, Heinrich Bolzano Edler von Kronstätt. 2240 In 1950, the Military History Museum in Vienna requested the directorate of the Austrian War Ar- chives to examine and amend the marble plaques on which in the pantheon in the Museum those colonels and generals who fell in battle in the wars of Austria from 1618 to 1918 are listed by name. On this occasion, the fate of Brigadier Bolzano was subjected to intensive research. Subsequent inter- ventions are based on this, like for example the enquiry by Ian Stevenson of Charlottesville, Virginia, from 10.7.1967. See the document from the directorate of War Archives, Zl. 34877/67. Since the War Archives concluded that mental disorientation was no reason to describe someone as having ‘fallen in battle’, the amendment to the plaques in the pantheon of the Museum was omitted. 2241 The then lieutenant colonel in the General Staff Corps and later Director of the War Archives, Rudolf Kiszling, described the incident to the author and interpreted it to the effect that the sentry who shot Bolzano assumed that the General wanted to desert. Kiszling was convinced, however, that Brigadier Bolzano wanted to die. A complete clarification was not possible, even with the help of the Italian files. 2242 KA, KM Präs 1915 1-11/8 as well as index volume of ‘Österreich-Ungarns letzter Krieg’, 173. 2243 KA, KM Präs 1915 1  – 5/11 : Retirement for age reasons. 2244 This is a reference to Major General Ludwig von Fabini, from the end of September 1914 to the beginning of August 1916 Commander of the 8th ‘Kaiserjäger’ Imperial Rifle Division. Proceedings before the Commission for the Investigation of Military Dereliction of Duty in War were instituted against General Fabini in 1919. See Doppelbauer, Zum Elend noch die Schande, 266 et seq. Neither disciplinary misconduct nor a case of criminal wrongdoing could be proven on the part of the General. He retained the unflattering name.