'Der Morder Princip' postcard
A German-language postcard with the text 'Der Morder Princip', which translates into English as 'The murderer, Princip', meaning Black Hand member, Gavrilo Princip.
CONTRIBUTOR
Špiro Vranješ
DATE
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LANGUAGE
eng
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INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
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A photo from the Leipziger Presse-Bureau with the German language caption which reads 'Die Verhaftung des mörders Prinzip nach dem Attentat von Sarajevo', and which translates into the English language as 'The arrest of the murderer Princip after the assassination in Sarajevo'. || Press photo of arrest of Gavrilo Princip
Gavrilo Princip and 'Black Hand' postcards
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The first postcard is of Gavrilo Princip, in his Terezin fortress prison cell (number 1), where he would be shackled to a wall for most of the rest of his short life, lose an arm by amputation because of skeletal tuberculosis, and eventually die in there having wasted away down to around 40 kilos. This card was printed by Jakob Kappon, of Sarajevo, Kingdom of S.H.S. ('Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca', translating as 'Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes'), later to become the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929, within the first decade after the end of the war. The second postcard is of Gavrilo Princip (name written on the card in Serbian Cyrillic as 'ГАВРИЛО ПРИНЦИП') and the 'St.Vitus Day Heroes' ('Видовдански хероји' in Cyrillic), plus 'Black Hand' co-conspirators, Danilo Ilic (written as 'ДАНИЛО ИЛИЂ') and Trifko Grabez (written as 'ТРИФКО ГРАБЕЖ'). Princip died in April 1918, not executed on account of being too young for capital punishment but instead receiving a long sentence, Ilic was executed by hanging at Sarajevo barracks in 1915, and Grabez, being under-age like Princip, received a prison sentence instead and, like Princip, died in jail of tuberculosis. || A couple of postcards dating from 1919 through to around 1929, one showing Gavrilo Princip, who shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, 28 June 1914, and the other postcard shows Princip and a couple of his 'Black Hand' co-conspirators.
'Der Bombenwerfer Cabrinovic' postcard
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Postcard of Nedeljko Cabrinovic being arrested || This postcard shows the arrest of Black Hand member, Nedeljko Cabrinovic, shortly after he threw an M12 Vasic grenade at the car in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand was being chauffeured through Sarajevo in 1914, which was an unsuccessful assassination attempt as the delay on the bomb fuse was such that Ferdinand's car had passed by the danger before the device exploded. After this, Cabrinovic had also taken a cyanide pill that was ineffective, possibly out of date for effectiveness, and then jumped into the Miljacka river to try and drown himself, though the river was just a number of inches deep. He would die of tuberculosis in prison in early 1916. The German text on this postcard of 'Der Bombenwerfer Cabrinovic' translates into English as 'The bomb thrower Cabrinovic'.


