Gavrilo Princip

Drop the name Gavrilo Princip into the ear of a modern day American and the likely response would be what? However, Gavrilo Princip was not a what, but rather, a who.

Gavrilo Princip was born in July 1894 and died in April 1918, and where the Keizer Wilhelm the 2nd of Germany may be seen as the man who most set the stage for The Great War, Gavrilo lit the match to ignite that Great War conflagration known here in America as WW1.

The lead up to WW1 is a most fascinating story. There were a few dominating concepts in the air since the mid 19th century, such as nation-states, and many big names. Otto Von Bismarck and his protégé the Keizer Wilhelm 2nd who in turn was the first born grandchild of Queen Victoria herself. Wilhelm and Nicholas, the Tsar of Russia were cousins.  Emperor Franz Joseph of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and his nephew, Archduke Franz Ferdinand were right there at the top of the list of the big name personalities causally connected to WW1.

Another important but little known name is that of one Dragutin Dimitrijevic, born August 1876, died June 1917, a Serbian colonel, aka Apis, code-named apparently after the ancient Egyptian deity of Apis the bull. Among other credentials he was a founding member of the Black Hand, aka, Unification or Death, a clandestine military order, and just as with Gavrilo, the Black Hand and Dragutin's dream was targeting a unification of southern Slavs into a single nation-state.

In 1911 Dragutin engineered an assassination attempt on the elderly Emperor Franz Joseph but the attempt failed. So Dragutin set his sights on Archduke Franz Ferdinand, first in line to succeed Franz Joseph and therefore heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. 

Dragutin had another problem with Ferdinand, Ferdinand was not the hard liner that the Emperor was, and when in the not so distant future Ferdinand became Emperor of Austro-Hungary his much more soft hearted approach to the Serbians would have made great difficulty for a revolution to manifest and bring to reality Dragutin's dream of a south Slavic nation-state.

So when Dragutin was made aware of a planned visit to Sarajevo by Archduke Franz Ferdinand, he put his plot to assassinate the Archduke in motion by sending his hit squad of 6 young men, including Gavrilo Princip to do the deed. 

Though the authorities, including the Prime Minister of Serbia, had been tipped off, the young men slipped into the neighboring Bosnia and on into Sarajevo.

On the morning of June 28th 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his beloved wife, Duchess Sophie arrived in Sarajevo. This would be the first time she was allowed to ride in public with her husband because of her low level of Royalty,  unfortunately, and tragically, it would also be her last ride ever.

The assassins lined up with the public who were there to view their Archduke. As the motorcade passed, the first two assassins failed to act, but the third assassin, Cabrinovic threw his bomb. However he did not wait on the 10 second fuse and the bomb missed its mark. Though others were injured and taken to the hospital, the Archduke and Sophie were unharmed.

At this point the rest of the hit squad stopped and experienced a delaying shock. Gavrilo, went to a near by café for a sandwich hoping to sort things out and puzzle it on through to what he should do next.

In the meanwhile and after a brief stop for official protocol, the Archduke and Sophie decided to go to the hospital to check on those wounded. It is here where the unbelievable then transpires, perhaps a manifestation of Divine Providence.

The driver turns in error and must reverse, his attempt stalls out the car, and this right in front of Gavrilo Princip, who draws his 380 semi automatic pistol and fires two shots. The first hits Ferdinand in the jugular, the second hits Sophie in the stomach, and the two are dead in twenty minutes or so.

Gavrilo is immediately seized, was tried, found guilty and given 20 years as he was not 20 years of age and could not be tried as an adult.

On July 28th, 1914, just one month later, Austro-Hungary declares war on Serbia, then on August 1st, Germany declares war on Russia and from there it all dominos very quickly into the guns of August and WW1 manifests.

Gavrilo died of tuberculosis and malnutrition in April 1918 before WW1 ended

Eventually a southern Slavic state emerged, Yugoslavia.

It is not for me to judge Gavrilo Princip.

But it is clear to me, that a people, living in tyranny by others not seen as one of us, who wish to live in liberty with their own kind only, and under their own laws and governing body, will eventually go to extremes to make manifest what should be clear to all common sensibly, our own people, in our own homeland, governed by we, our own people. 

That is the concept behind a new White Homeland, a land of, by and for white people, non-liberal, non-apostate, white people. The Pacific North West of America calls out.

I believe Gavrilo Princip is still regarded as a hero by the southern Slavic people.

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