Snezana Milikic Nikolić
It’s been many years since Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, which has radically changed relations in Europe and the world, but in the end, however, very little has changed.
Praise after the war by the South Slav peoples as a freedom fighter, together with other members of the organization “Young Bosnia” Principles today remembered and respected only Serbs and pro-Yugoslav oriented members of the other close to us the nation that we once were in the same country with which we have for centuries shared the same fate. O Príncipe known all.
About the gun that started an avalanche of World War II, and its extension in the form of the second, however, little is known. Rather, almost nothing. In fact, 90 years ago was completely unknown where he is, whether it is stored or destroyed, whether somewhere gathering dust. After the killings and arrests, trials, the hell of war and the dissolution of the monarchy, no one took care of the tool of the event that has become a pretext for the start of the first global conflict.
The way this gun is extremely interesting. After a 12-day trial in Sarajevo in October 1914, in which the principle was sentenced to the maximum sentence of 20 years (since he was younger than 20 years), the Bosnian minister in Vienna presented the Jesuit Father Anthony Puntigamu pistol “Browning” , FN model 1910, serial number 19074, and other items related to this case: the rosary with belt Archduchess Sophia, upholstery cushion on which the archduke rested his head after he was wounded and bombs and guns principles accomplices.
Puntigam is planned to open a museum. Because of the war, however, he never achieved. When the priest died in 1926, Subjects offered Archduke family, but they refused to receive them. He then fell into oblivion.
