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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums99 years ago today. Archduke Franz Ferdinand and wife Sophie assassinated
Principals:
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg
Gavrilo Princip
On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead in Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six Bosnian Serb assassins coordinated by Danilo Ilić. The political objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's south-Slav provinces so they could be combined into a Greater Serbia or a Yugoslavia. The assassins' motives were consistent with the movement that later became known as Young Bosnia. Serbian military officers stood behind the attack.
At the top of these Serbian military conspirators was Chief of Serbian Military Intelligence Dragutin Dimitrijević, his righthand man Major Vojislav Tankosić, and Masterspy Rade Malobabić. Major Tankosić armed the assassins with bombs and pistols and trained them. The assassins were given access to the same clandestine tunnel of safe-houses and agents that Rade Malobabić used for the infiltration of weapons and operatives into Austria-Hungary.
The assassins, the key members of the clandestine tunnel, and the key Serbian military conspirators who were still alive were arrested, tried, convicted and punished. Those who were arrested in Bosnia were tried in Sarajevo in October 1914. The other conspirators were arrested and tried before a Serbian kangaroo court on the French-controlled Salonika Front in 19161917 on unrelated false charges; Serbia executed three of the top military conspirators. Much of what is known about the assassinations comes from these two trials and related records.
Assignment of responsibility for the bombing and murders of 28 June is highly controversial because the attack led to the outbreak of World War I one month later.
Ilsa
(61,690 posts)zappaman
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Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)formercia
(18,479 posts)is that Archduke Ferdinand was pretty liberal considering the Period. Had he Lived, the Balkans would have probably been a much better place.
This was a False-Flag operation carried out by a Secret Society called the 'Black Hand,'
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)He wasn't an imperialist prick... at least not like Wilhelm II and George V.
formercia
(18,479 posts)Can't have a Liberal on the Austro-Hungarian Throne. That might just take away someone's Rice Bowl. People like Krupp et al.
They had their MIC too....
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)formercia
(18,479 posts)and their connections. It gave me a bit of insight, like selling arms to Russia and Japan. When the Russo-Japanese War broke out, the belligerents were shooting at each other with Krupp Cannon, from Krupp Ships and firing Krupp Torpedoes.
No matter who won, Krupp made Money......Just like Today's MIC.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)...which is also known as Fascism.
MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)of course prior to WW1...