But politicians know a powerful tool when they see one. "The Sarajevo assassination wasn't ever the big deal in Sarajevo." "My grandfather mentioned that once to me in passing," says Pasovic. His grandfather was a teenager working in the family shop on June 28, 1914, and actually heard the gunshots that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Haaris Pasovic is a theatrical director in Sarajevo. To people with firsthand experience of the assassination, this all seems very odd.
WHO ASSASSINATED FRANZ FERDINAND IN 1914 MOVIE
The real Princip was a scrawny, malnourished guy.īut in the 1975 movie The Day That Shook the World, he's a smoldering heartthrob who murmurs to a gorgeous woman, "Try to understand. The meaning of the symbol changes depending on who's talking.Įven Hollywood got in on the act. In every era, people with power have tried to use this assassin as a symbol. History A Century Ago In Sarajevo: A Plot, A Farce And A Fateful Shot There was a plaque in the 1930s that said Princip fired shots expressing the longing of people to be free. Lyon runs through about a half-dozen monuments that have been erected on this site, built up and torn down with each change in power. "Was Gavrilo Princip a terrorist, or was he a national hero? There have been tug-of-war interpretations, and they have changed over time." "The question you're faced with is very stark," says historian James Lyon, an expert in Balkan history. That was the first in a long string of short-lived memorials to the assassination. And it was destroyed in 1918," says Nazerovic. Saturday, 28 June this year marked one hundred years since 19-year-old Serbian Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, sparking controversy and anger all across Europe and eventually leading to the outbreak of war in August 1914. It was a monument with a very short life. Murder in Sarajevo and the First World War. In the one-room museum on the corner where the assassination took place, tour guide Mirsad Nazerovic points to a black-and-white photo of a pillar that used to stand outside this building. Today, the legacy of the Bosnian Serb nationalist remains the subject of intense debate - nowhere more than in Sarajevo itself. That event triggered World War I, charting the course for the 20th century. Depending on whom you ask, he's either a hero or a terrorist.Ī hundred years ago Saturday, Gavrilo Princip shot the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Nineteen-year-old Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip fired the shots that killed the heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and his wife, Sophie, during a visit to Sarajevo on June 28, 1914.
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