Sunday, August 18, 2013

Franz Ferdinand part 2

So the reason why I gave a short run down of the spark that ignited World War One is because I got to visit the site where the assassination took place.  A museum now stands on the corner where the archduke was shot and there is an inscription on the side of the building.  I was there back on June 29th, 99 years and 1 day after what can be argued as the most significant event of the 20th century.  There were a lot of tensions in Europe but that assassination was the spark that ignited WWI.  Then because of the treaties that ended WWI, largely punishing Germany, it allowed a climate to exist that would allow someone like Adolf Hitler to rise to power.  Then WWII ends which leads to another power struggle that would turn into the Cold War which had many peripheral wars (Korea and Vietnam to name a few) and then when the Soviet Union collapsed there were still more wars such as the Bosnian war of the 1990's.  Without the assassination would there have been a WWI and then all of the events over the next 100 years that can trace their orgins to WWI?  who knows.

anyway, her are some of the pictures that I took:












 The pants worn by Princip and the bag that he was carrying when he assassinated the archduke



 

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