Sarajevo. Attentatsort vom 28. Juni 1914

Date

• ca. 1914

Summary

• How peaceful the town looks compared with its recent history. But the assassination there of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria on June 28, 1914, put Sarajevo on the world map of history, and the shots fired on the other side of the river bridge -- "x" marks the spot -- took the lives of seven million soldiers in the Great War which followed. Until the recent ethnic war in what later became, and used to be, Yugoslavia, visitors to Sarajevo could see a pair of footprints set in concrete at the very site, marked on this postcard, where Gavrilo Princip, a young Serbian nationalist and hero to his people, shot his way into history. The memorial is gone now, and so, too, the commemorative plaque from "Princip" Bridge -- no hero to Bosnians, Princip is reviled by them as a terrorist.