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Colonel Alois Podhajsky leads a stallion through a movement called a capriole (above). Late in the war, he asked the U.S. Army’s help in retrieving Austria’s beloved Lipizzaner horses from a German-controlled farm (below). ((Bettmann/CORBIS))
(Bettmann/CORBIS)