Captain von Trapp's World War I Service

2025 marks the 60th anniversary of the release of The Sound of Music , an enormously successful Hollywood film with fans all over the world. As with any story Hollywood translates to the silver screen, the film is a mix of fact and fiction. What is not fiction, however, is that the leading male protagonist, Captain Georg von Trapp, had served in the Austro-Hungarian Navy and was a decorated veteran of World War I. To explore this fascinating history, the World War I Podcast hosted Johanna II von Trapp and Shela Gobertina von Trapp, Co-Founders of the Georg & Agathe Foundation, and Boris Blazina, Historian at the Institute of Lexicography in Zagreb, Croatia, and editor of the Croatian translation of Georg von Trapp's 1935 WWI memoir published. Learn more about the Georg & Agathe Foundation and Captain von Trapp's military service: Georg & Agathe Foundation Have a comment about this episode? Send us a text message! (Note: we can read texts, but we cannot respond.)

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This episode is 28:09 long.

This episode was published on Jun 26, 2025.

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