To this day, Princip is considered a hero in Serbia, streets named after him, and a terrorist amd assasin in Croatia. On Bosnia it depends if you are in Repulika Srpska or in the Federation of BiH. Balkans in a nushell.
Had Austria-Hungary treated it's minorities as equals, the violence would never have happened. Ethnic Germans and ethnic Hungarians controlled all the political power, everyone else was a second-class citizen. The Balkans are still a mess because the Great Powers played sides against each other and still do, as recently as the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
@@AlphabetSoup-z2b How many years did it take for you to reach that profound truth? 'Life isn't a movie.', I'll have to write that one down and file it for later consideration.
Interesting and informative😊. As a former HS teacher, I presented this story many times, including the biographies of the assassins. I had not the slightist idea that some of the assassins lived until the 1980's .
A fascinating and educational video , which explains this story perfectly . This should be shown in history lessons in schools . Well done , and , thank you .
I am so glad I watched this production. It was laid out so well with some really interesting and pertinent facts that I did not know . Facts are important but so is context and you blended them so well.I have subscribed and feel a binge watch of other videos coming my way! BRAVO!🙌
Worth mentioning, not sure about the others... However GP was consumptive long before that fateful day... Was definitely on his way out... Enjoyed the vid
2:20 Context is important. Serbia and Austria were mostly closely connected and friendly countries. They were allies in many situations and always shared sympathy. Economies were closely linked. Even in 1720s, Serbia was part of Austria for 20 years. Austria supported uprisings in the 1800s, etc. In the 1870s, there was a big uprising in Bosnia, primarily by Serbs. Of course, Serbia helped them (it was expensive) and did everything it could without openly angering Turkey. Austria encouraged the insurgents and promised them help... promised... but in the end help never came even though they shared a common border and could help the insurgents as they wanted. It was obvious to the insurgents what it was all about, and thus they hated Austria, which watched as Turkey slowly suppressed the uprising. Austria's goal was to get Bosnia without a fight, so that the insurgents will tire Turkey into giving it up, and the future potential problem in the insurgents (if they rebelled against Turkey today, they will against Austria tomorrow) will be solved by Turkey in fighting. That's how it happened. Austria sat on the sidelines and harassed the rebels, but did not help them. She waited for both the rebels (with Serbia) and Turkey to spoil, so that in the end she would take 100% of the cake for herself. Since then, hostilities between Serbia and Austria started because the goal of Austria was clear to everyone, they dropped the mask.
It should also be stated that Franz Ferdinand had the intention to integrate Serbia into a new empire with a Serbian throne in the Habsburg empire, diversifying it further. He was the greatest opposition to military operations against Serbia, and once he was dead, von Hötzendorf was finally free to pursue his plans which failed quite miserably in the end, and AH didn't even have a plan B for Russia actually intervening. Before the war, AH was prospering quite well economically, so maybe there could have been a "nicer" and more prosperous history for the Balkans after all. Could've, would've...
@@cirkmannzirkel8229 What kind of governments we have had for years, maybe it would have been better for us in the Balkans if AH had occupied us and integrated us into itself. And anyway, 90% of us who move out go to the old AH and its neighborhood.
Excellent documantery and on time for the 110th anniversary of the Great War, I wonder why youtube's algorithm doesn't promote it more, it deserves way more views. I dropped a like though as I enjoy your videos...
Good overview; thought you might mention the date (June 28th) was not only the Archduke’s wedding anniversary, it was also the anniversary of the ‘field of black crows’ - the 600 year(approx) anniversary of final battle when Serbia lost to Ottoman Empire, but killed the Ottoman leader. Despite losing the battle, the historic date was held in esteem by Serbia and the attendance of the Archduke did inflame Serbian nationalist passion; in other words, the Archduke picked the worst date possible to attend Bosnia.
Agree, but they kept this moving and stayed on topic of the sentences handed out to these teenagers. No mention of Kaiser Wilhelm or Otto von Bismark either. Just how deep down the Rabbit Hole do you go in 16 minutes? They also don't mention what a crummy job Count Hurrach was doing as quasi-Security since Franz & Sophie both get shot. He was there on the running board to get their last words, but obviously was pretty lousy WRT protecting them.
Slobodan Milosevic was kidnapped and extradited on the same holiday to the "international court" by American puppets set up after the first color revolution in Europe financed by the West, the pattern of events is obvious, the remaking of history as well, but the resistance is eternal
Funny thing - the car didn't belong to the Archduke, but rather to the Count Harrach. Archduke wanted to travel in a open car, so he borrowed it from the Count together with the driver. Which maybe meant that the driver wasn't as experienced in the role as the Archduke's own driver would be. The driver's name was Leopolod Lojka and he impressed the Count when he, as a young dragoon, was injured while stopping spooked horses. The Count took him into his personal service and made him his personal driver. When the Count was ordered to join the Archduke in Sarajevo, he went there together with his car and driver and rest is the history. Lojka blamed himself for that bad turn and for the war that followed. He served as a driver during it, survived and then got a permission to have a pub. It didn't do well, his wife divorced him and left with their son and Lojka died alone of kidney failure in 1926 at the age of 39. One writer captured this scene in his memories - the pub owner dying, while the guests were serving themselves the beer and only after the man died, his connection to Sarajevo assassination was revealed when police went through his papers. He was buried in an unmarked grave, until 10 years back (2014) when some historical group bought a nice new gravestone and made a small ceremony on his grave. (Historical costumes, voley fire and all that).
i was fascinated by WW1 and how it started since learning about it at high school......its amazing that there are stil tensions there to this day........my step fathers father was a Gallipoli veteran , i was 9 when he passed away in the early 70s and as a child i remember asking him what it was like being in a war expecting him to tell me tales of bravado , he simply said to me ,"war is futile"......had to look that word up but is engraved in my memory🇭🇲🇭🇲
Possibly the most accurate account of events I have heard. I would disagree about the aftermath of the first attempt as it would appear the motorcade stopped to see if everyone was alright before heading to the Town Hall, and with the order of the shots, the first was almost certainly at the Archduke, and the second, as his arm was grabbed by bystanders and pulled downwards, hit the side of the car sending the now distorted round into the abdomen of the Archduchess. Excellent coverage for a video though, well done.
@@BattleGuideVT WWI or The Great War would have been avoided because of The Archduke wanted negotiations with The Serbs and reason with them avoided millions of deaths.
Austrian army was planning a war in Serbia since 1903 that could hardly be stopped just postponed don't know about the WW but that one was in the making for a long time also
Great video, Battle Guide. The background you gave is informative. I had learned a bit about the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand before, but learned even more here. The satellite images and labels are helpful also. The imagery of the City Hall is great too and so is the view from the bridge. It really helps to visualize the distance. I've heard about how Archduke Ferdinand had allowed the events to continue, but it still amazes me that he did this - especially after surviving an assassination attempt. "A cruel twist of fate" - That is so true. I didn't know that Cabrinovic wrote an apology letter (or that the Archduke's children forgave him). I didn't know Popovic became the curator of Sarajevo Museum. Very informative video. Dan's narration is excellent. Great work, Battle Guide team. The podcast is excellent and I look forward to listening to it at the end of each week. Take care.
A Serbian professor told me that the Black Hand was not involved, not all historians believe they were. Two of Ferdinand’s children opposed Hitler’s absorbing Austria into Germany and both served terms of imprisonment in concentration camps. The next on the thrones Charles I has been beatified.
As much as I/we hate to admit it, History can be kind of like astrology. All can agree how the planets were/are aligned, but the interpretation of events can vary from historian to historian.
Well the serbian professor obviously possesses only nationalistic level surface knowledge of those events. What more can you expect from a serbian. Only believing their own rewriting of history. Nothing out of the norm for the serbians. BTW, the serbian innvolvement was so obvious, the leader of the black hand was the leader of the military intellegence of serbia, and was the one who orchestrated a coup on serbian King Alexander merely a decade beforehand, which lead to the then serbian government taking office. The black hand was trained and funded by the serbian military.
To inject some of reality´s shades of grey into the mostly black and white depictions: In 1878, the Berlin Congress placed the Ottoman provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina under Austro-Hungarian administration (the state government for Bosnia and Herzegovina). Formally, Bosnia remained part of the Ottoman Empire until its annexation in 1908. Despite considerable resistance from partisans, especially Muslims under Hadji Loja, Bosnia-Herzegovina was occupied by the Austro-Hungarian army during the 1908 occupation campaign. Because the Austrian and Hungarian politicians could not agree on which of the two constituent states of Austria-Hungary the new acquisitions should go to, administration was transferred to the joint Austro-Hungarian Ministry of Finance. During this time, officials coined the double name Bosnia-Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina), which is still the name of the country today. The Austro-Hungarian administration created an efficient school and health system and enabled good economic development. During this period, the industrial exploitation of Bosnia-Herzegovina's natural resources and forests began, although this was done with a sense of proportion (including reforestation projects). Narrow-gauge railway lines and important highways were built. Skilled workers were needed for the first steps towards industrialization. This led to the immigration of people from other parts of the Danube Monarchy between 1880 and 1910. These included Germans and Czechs, as well as Poles, Slovenians and Ruthenians. Some of these immigrants also acquired land and worked as farmers. In their rule, the Austrians also relied on the old Muslim elites, whom they managed to win over through various measures. Thus, Islam was officially recognized as an equal religion. At the beginning of the 20th century, Austria-Hungary was the only Christian-dominated state that maintained legally regulated relations with a Muslim religious community and therefore, among other things, also had Muslim religious instruction taught in schools, maintained military imams in the army, organized a Muslim prison chaplaincy, granted religious institutions the right of self-government and gave them the status of a public corporation. The Islam Act passed for this reason in 1912 remained largely unchanged in the Republic of Austria until it was amended by the Islam Act in 2015. More important for the good relations with the old Bosnian elite, however, was that the Austrian administration left the conditions in the countryside largely untouched. The agrarian reform that was carried out only brought a small number of tenants their own land and a release from servitude to the Muslim agas. As positive an effect as this had on the relations between the Austrians and the Muslim elites, it was the Serbian peasants in particular who were dissatisfied.
Nice video but one correction. That bullet didn't start the WW1 cause it was already set to happen. There was many global interests at the time, much bigger than Archduke himself. Austro-Hungary was just looking for a motiv to start the war. And they could stop assassination cause they knew everything about preparations. But they decided to do nothing. In fact, they bring the Archduke like a clay pigeon on shooting.
@@TheOmegakix He wasn't even a nationalist, Young Bosnia was a multi-ethnic group of anarchists that were against the Serbian crown as much as they were against the Habsburg one, some would even call them proto communists.
@@TheOmegakixPeople believe all types of propaganda. They say that Gavrilo Princip was nationalist even terrorist. When in fact he was part of a group Young Bosnia (Mlada Bosna) made up out of 3 different Bosnian nationalities. Young people that wanted a society in which all of the different nationalities would have equality and would be freed from foreign control. Gavrilo has regretted shooting Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. However, if in this case the assassin was English or French…etc. he would have been hailed a hero on the world stage. I hope he died realizing that he freed his country from an invader and his actions have shape Europe in the best ways. He is held a hero in the Balkans.
12:25, 12:44, I’ve heard certain historians of WWI (i.e. Christopher Clark, Max Hastings, etc) say that in June 1914 Europe was looking more peaceful than it ever had before, despite the 2 Balkan skirmishes of 1912-1913!
Tnx a lot ❤during the time of gavrilo princip,when you had tuberculosis you are surely a candidate for a cemetery 😢during that time, tuberculosis has not yet discovered its panacea 😢
One historical commentator made the statement that the two most significant gun shots of modern history was (1) the gun shot that assassinated Franz Ferdinand (2) the self-inflicted/suicidal gun shot of Adolf Hitler.
A Finnish newspaper had a title "Archduke Franz Ferdinand shot with a Browning." Yes, the weapon was an FN Browning Model 1910 but Browning was a generic term for a small pocket pistol at the time.
I would add the gunshot that killed Abraham Lincoln. Who knows what would have happened in the world if he had lived? America might have become a very important country in world politics and a force for peace.
This person made a mistake. Gavrilo Princip never wanted to kill Sophie Chotek, only Franz Ferdinand. He killed Sophie by mistake and regretted it to his dying breath.
"Наше ће сјене ходати по Бечу, лутати по двору, плашити господу…“. " Our shadows will walk around Vienna, wander around the court, scare the lords..."." Gavrilo Princip wrote this on a wall of his prison cell (where he died) in Terezin in Czech Republic
@@ivexxl1 He never regretted anything and besides that, he was a Jewish and many people deny it, but that's the reality. He was trained for years for that evil deed. Another one of the Synagogue of Satan trained to kill a Christian....and bring misery upon us all.
@@twalk263 Some people are proud of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and some people are bragging with dropping depleted uranium and killing 50.000 Serbs saying it was justified. Yes, that makes it more than okay.
Another excellent video. Considering the outrage in A-H, the sentences were suprisingly mild. Apart from the leaders one. Though it begs the question if princips death truly was just disease or also mistreatment
I'm sure Princip's Jailers weren't doing him any favors in Prison. I have no idea, we weren't born yet. If you count neglect as mistreatment, that's my guess as to what it was. His TB was getting worse, they wouldn't have wanted to go near him IHMO. Even if I fix my time machine, I don't think a prison in Bosnia in 1916 is going to be in my top ten.
@@BattleGuideVTistraga koju je vodila austro-ugarska odmah poslje antentata dokazala je da Srbija nema nikakve veze sa događajima u Sarajevu. Srbija je dobila ultimatum koju je u potpunosti prihvaćen sem jedne tačke. Evropa je tada već bila bure baruta koje čeka da eksplodira
From what I read, all were chained. Stone floors, no heating, lung infections. Princip's hands chained high above the head, with water dripping down. His elbows dislocated over time.
This moment changed the history of the world and the fate of millions of people for ever. Without it, WW2 and the cold war would not have happened, nor the middle east conflict and many other conflicts and wars around the world, which originated from country border shifts after WW1 and WW2.
It is interesting that Austria-Hungary was relatively restrained in its punishment of many of the group, but so unrestrained in its demands on Serbia that led to the war.
When Austro-Hungarian emperor Franz Joseph heard that his nephew was assassinated, Franz Joseph didn’t care. He hated Franz Ferdinand for his reforms. Ever since he became emperor, Franz Joseph wanted Serbia part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and when he heard the Archduke was assassinated, he decided to use it as an excuse to incorporate Serbia into the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
He and his gang had only to cross the river into Serbia. He died of consumption in 1918. The Serb businesses were trashed by the locals in Sarajevo because of the assassination.
I'm honestly surprised how many of them lived to old age really. Its ironic that being in prison probably saved more than a few of their lives as had they been free they might also have been casualties of the war they helped unleash upon the world.
Seriously? I wouldn't wish those prison conditions on anyone. Not even you. Hands chained high above the head, with joints dislocating over time... no heating, stone floors...
I'm glad you mentioned the other factors that led to WW1, all too often, it seems, historians, or at least those who tell the history of WW1, over simplistically say that Franz Ferdinand's assassination was the sole cause of hostilities breaking out. It was, as you said, a far more complex series of events, decisions and national rivalries/alliances than one couple simply being murdered
WWI did not start because of that. Germans were building a Berlin- Bagdad railroad in order to gain oil fields. Britts didn't like that because they held almost all oil fields in the East. Those poor boys and the archduke were just the puppies for the masons and jesuits. The rairoad had to go through Serbia and the allies would never allow it , so they pushed Serbia into the war it never wanted because it just went out of two. But the Germans knew that and urged the Austria into war.
sure, masons and jesuits..... these kinds of conspiracy tales is getting sooooo tedious. I'd rather believe a story that aliens were behind it. Lizard people from Mars.
Winston Churchill, as the Lord of the admiralty, funded and supported the Black Hand. He hoped they would slow the construction of the Bagdad railway to Germany. Thus he helped create WWI.
@@drstevej2527 Just from memory... Starting with the switch in warships from coal to oil. Germany and UK did this at the same time. Lots of oil was discovered in the middle east. UK had an ocean route to get the oil. Germany would have to deal with the straights of Gibraltar, UK owned. So they planned for the Baghdad to Berlin railway to bring in oil. The more oil transported on the railway, the less for UK. So the UK Admiralty (Winston Churchill) funded the Black Hand to sabotage the railway construction. Slow it down. The same group who's assassination plot 'started WWI'. It is all in the books. Not anything new.
@@OldProVidios None of which proves your point. Name one scholarly body that supports this nonsense claim. Just one! Cite the documentation and your credentials in the field.
@@drstevej2527 It is in every history book. Why do I have to find you a link? Don't you know how to search the web for information? The words are all there for you to search. On the other hand, you have not provided any evidence to the contrary. This video explains what the black hand was doing in Serbia. Common knowledge that the UK was funding them. Common knowledge that Churchill was lord of the admiralty. Common knowledge that Churchill was a fumbling putz.
It’s interesting that Popovic said upon reflection if he knew the assassination would be one of the major reasons that lit The Great War fuse, he wouldn’t have done it but didn’t say he wished he hadn’t killed his ruler and innocent wife. Hmmm🤔🧐
Wait, the driver went back to where the explosions came from carrying dumb mustache Ferdinand? It wasn't a coincidence, someone in the gathering knew about this lmao!
Franz Ferdinand's visit took place on June 28, Vidovdan (St. Vitus Day), the anniversary of the Serbian defeat against the Ottomans on Kosovo Field in 1389, which was viewed by the population as a strong provocation.
Ow boy how much has been left unsaid in this video is truly remarkable. If it were a video only about the shooting, I'd say it's really OK except of a few misunderstandings (which I'll revert to in the comment) but the rest of it, concerning happenings before and after, were horribly underexplained. First I'll start with Gavrilo Princip's last position, he never thought that the Archduke will go the same way back aftert the first attepmt (shows how stupid the AU organisation was) and he never hoped he would be able to try the assassination, so he SAT DOWN for a COFFEE when the car pulled around the corner and stalled! He was extremely lucky that he had the opportunity to strike, it WASN'T planned by him! (this is the misunderstanding about the shooting itself I mentioned above). Next, the shooters were chosen ON PURPOSE for their age, as they could not, by AU law, get the capital punishment for their crime! Also, three of them had already advanced tuberculosis and were adamant to go through with the shootings in order to make something of their lives (although not to get hanged for it...) They actually risked a minimum as they were more or less dead men walking, and the fact that the first chosen method was a bomb that would kill all in the car and that in the second attempt Pricip shot Sofie and FF with total disregard for the lady just shows how much they disregarded everything normal people hold as normal. Then the Black Hand: these guys, led by Dragutin Dimitrijević "Apis" and his close associate Vojislav Tankosić, had already openly killed the Serbian own king Aleksandar Obrenović AND his wife, by taking over their residence in the night, stabbing them with swords and throwing their dead bodies from the first floor on the street. They also, that same night, killed the Prime minister Dimitrije Cincar Marković (btw a general of the army that previously led the reform of the army, which those young officers hated), his son in law Jovan Miljković on duty guarding the king in the residence, both brothers of the queen Draga that were also army personnel (which proves she was not a circumstantial victim...), shot several bullets into the Minister of the interior but he luckily survived, and also wanted to kill the Minister of war and other political and army dignitaries. For this they were REPRIMANDED by the new king they indirectly installed (Peter Karađorđević) and that only after Austriajungary AND Russia AND UK broke their diplomatic relations due to the assassinations! None of them served ANY sentences other than several dyas of house arrest, but they were given some of the best army positions in Serbia, with Apis finally given the Head of the Army Intelligence!!! Now, the Black Hand was WIDELY known in Serbia AND Elsewhere, and their own agenda was NOT uniting all the Slavic peoples but forming of a Great Serbia!!! That is IN THEIR documents! Also a member HAD to be a Serb, by their own Statute! They were practicing the same methods as Freemasons, with all the "secretive" protocols etc. and were actively beating up and harrasing all that stood in their way, INCLUDING threatening the new king Peter (that ruled ACCORDING to a democratic Constitution and DID NOT meddle in internal politics) and later EVEN BOTH Princes (George and Alexander) as they wanted to keep full influence on BOTH and puppet them into Black Hand agenda. The threats were OPEN, with Apis and Tankosić telling them "we've killed one king, we can always kill another" and walked away with NO repercussions?!? They even HAD plans to kill Peter AND later Alexander, which they would have out in motion if they needed it. On the wake of the First Balkan War, that same Black Hand, seeing a reluctancy in the Serbian politics and army, STARTED WAR actions 3 days prior in the interior of then Ottoman territory, DIRECTLY DISOBEYING army command, EXACTLY in order to provoke the action, and they succeeded in that too. For their actions they were later given medals without any reprimand. Tankosić was the one that operationally led the arming and organisation of the Sarajevo assassins, with FULL knowledge AND approvement by Apis, and we know that from Apis hand hinself, as his LAST letter he wrote before being shot in 1917. in Greece was PRECISELY the admittance of that act! What was he shot for? For the ONE deed that he didn't go through, namely the planning of the assassination of the King Alexander himself... Tankosić was already dead then as he died in the battles of WW1 in Serbia. There is NO DOUBT that the Sarajevo assassination was armed by, preplanned and organised by the Black Hand, whose head was then the Head of Army Intelligence in Serbia, (also best buddies with the Head of Staff of Serbian Army Vojvoda Putnik) who already killed the Serbian King and Queen, Prime minister and tried to kill many more ministers and got PROMOTED, instigated the First Balkan War and got PROMOTED, wanted to preemptively attack Bulgaria but then Bulgaria attacked in the 2nd Balkan war, and finally went for the heir to the Austrohungarian throne who, btw, was THE ONE top AU politician that ACTUALLY wanted to change the Monarchy into a Triune one, with Slavs getting equal political status as the Austrians and the Hungarians held in the then Dual monarchy. He did hate Serbia PRECISELY for the horrible way that relatively newly formed country with no true aristocracy (all of their aristocracy was peasant / rebel families rising to power by mass killings of their closest rivals) dealt in their politics, scheming for Great Serbia with all lands where Serbs are even in the smallest majority being claimed, even as the majority was definitely against it. BTW your map is defective, it shows Srijem, north of Sava river, as part of Serbia, which it wasn't as it was a part of AU. But yes, the Serbs wanted that too, not only Bosnia and Herzegovina. They also wanted Bačka, Banat, Baranja, Slavonija, Dalmacija, Dubrovnik, Kordun, Banija, Lika and other regions, of course Macedonia (which they grabbed although they promised it to Bulgaria), Albania (where AU had previously told Serbia if they don't vacate it AU WILL go to war over it), Montenegro (where the King was Nikola Petrović who after the WW1 got dethroned although he went into the war with Serbia although he didn't have any obligations...), ALL regions where Serbs were a MINORITY!!! What else is not mentioned? Well, that the Austrohungarians, utterly displeased as their investigation immediately proved that the attackers were completely instigated by Vojislav Tankosić (completely true) but Serbia denied his arrest and extradition as their Army Intelligence didn't find proof of that (while that Army Intelligence Head is the best friend of Tankosić and his collaborator, signed by HIS OWN hand in 1917.)!!! AU then released an ultimatum where it asked for his trial and that the AU police be allowed to present to that trial as they wanted to prevent another fake Serbian trial as they held in 1903., 1911. and 1912. and many many previous times (and later ones, just read about Puniša Račić in 1928. and his assassination of Croat representatives in the Parliament under session!!), and THAT Serbia denied... Austria Hungary had EVERY right to enter Serbia, with full force, until the culprits for killing a de facto head of neighbour state are ALL found and tried by STANDARD democratic practice, not by Serbian false legal practice that would lead to their promotion, and not hangings...
How is it that the Serbs never tried to assassinate the Ottoman authority for their 6 centuries of brutal occupation, but attacked the Austrians despite just a few years of control?
Because the Austrians preserved the Turkish landlords, with Christians conitinuing to pay rent for their own ancestral land, in addition to paying tax and serving in the army of the new ruler Austria-Hungary.
Excellent video! Five stars for the outstanding graphics and attention to all the details about this extremely important event in world history. It's one of those moments that almost seem pre-destined to happen, when the Archduke's car made its fateful return back to where Gavrilo Princip was waiting with his pistol.
It actually started two world wars, because without WW1 and its outcome no WW2. This is taking into account the fact there are many factors that could have prevented both wars, if the actors involved would have made other decisions.
Russia's role as the instigator of this assasination is usually forgotten in such compilations. The funding, the gun and other requisites for the deed were given by Russia throught its ambassador in Belgrade. The Russian ambassador suffered a heart attack and died when a month later the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbia.
Naše će sjene hodati po Beču, lutati po dvoru, plašeći gospodu. Please, make a video with the real information how Franz was sacrificed by their own leadership in order to attack Serbia.
…The answer is not who shoot the Archduke the Question is who were the people who pay 💰 for the “Silver Bullet “ to kill the Archduke and who were the people who benefited??
I've heard some speculation that Australia Hungary had planned his death. AH had a general who wanted a war "just because I want it" Further reinforcement on that idea is the alternative route not being used; use the old route as a final last attempt.
Princip was just a product of his time. They wanted independence, and the Austro-Hungarian wanted to help themselves to land that wasn't theirs. Curtesy of a collapsing Turk occupation.
The assassins lid the fuse, but the Austrian government put gun powder, instead of water, on the fuse. They made very harsh demands on Serbia, which accepted all but one of their terms. And Austria declared war. So, they saw the assassination not as a crime, but as an opportunity to go to war. If you have the war mentality, there are opportunities everywhere. They could have done the same thing if the victim was an ambassador, or a minister of commerce. This kind of tragedy happened many times before 1914 and is still happening today, and will happen again in the future.
That's not true. WW1 started as a result of aspirations and war ambitions of imperial Germany. Assassination was a just the good excuse. The war would start regardless of that sad incident.
Princip is said not to have regretted his action, even knowing the bloodshed and horror that followed. And the First World War led to the Second, and the Holocaust. Violence begets violence.
Gavrilo Princip was of Serbian nationality: he belonged to a terrorist group named the 'Black Hand': attached to Freemasonry: work it out yourself ... Serbia and Austria had no affiliation: firstly Austria was Roman Catholic, Serbia is Orthdox : their royalty did not mix Austria was an Empire, which ruled: From 1806-1918: Austria was the German-speaking heartland of the Holy Roman Empire (until 1806), the Austrian Empire (until 1867), and then Austro-Hungarian Empire (until 1918).
Well if you count the involvement of 'The Black Hand' organizing the murder and procuring weapons for these kids, you could make a nuanced case for Belgrade, but the actual kinetic part happened in Sarajevo.
@@GregBrownsWorldORacing I am from Sarajevo,and I went to school a few minutes walk from the place where Franz was murdered. This channel is refreshing. Cheers
@@sabinasb2445 I'm old enough to remember the Olympics in Sarajevo. I watched the events unfold in your city with horror from the US. I'm glad it's peaceful there again. I'm not sure it will ever be the same there. It looked like the most tolerant city on earth, where it was OK for everybody to be who they were.
