Gavrilo Princip: The Teenager Who Started World War I
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Source/Further reading:
Link to The Sleepwalkers, superlative book on the outbreak of WWI: www.amazon.com/Sleepwalkers-H...
Decent overview from the Telegraph (paywall): www.telegraph.co.uk/history/w...
Excellent dual overview of both Princip and Franz Ferdinand - lots of sources: www.thespec.com/news/world/20...
LRB: Overview and a rebuttal: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n...
Christopher Clark on Tim Butcher’s Princip biography: www.theguardian.com/books/201...
New Statesman - Tim Butcher’s biography: www.newstatesman.com/internat...
History Today: www.historytoday.com/archive/...
Princip’s bio from the Bosnian side: www.inyourpocket.com/sarajevo...
Busting the sandwich myth: www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...
Geographics on Sarajevo (inc. facts on Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia): • Sarajevo: The City and...
Biographics on Franz Ferdinand: • Franz Ferdinand: The M...
History of Bosnia: www.britannica.com/place/Bosn...
Bosnian Crisis: www.history.com/this-day-in-h...
History of ethnic tensions in the Balkans: www.ricksteves.com/watch-read...
History of Serbia: www.britannica.com/place/Serb...
Vranje training: books.google.cz/books?id=okMt...
NPR, Princip’s shifting legacy: www.npr.org/sections/parallel...
How Princip is seen today: balkaninsight.com/2014/05/08/...
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this video was made a month ago but only just got published?
@@MikhailKalashnikovMiG it do be like that sometimes
could you guys do one on george lincoln rockwell?
Hey Simon, when you get a chance, I think you should do a biographic on either Casanova or Warder Cresson (Cresson was a Quaker who was made first consul to Israel for America, converted to Judaism and faced a lot of crap for it).
@@tylerrebik7700 sounds super interesting, hope simon and the team see this
Parents talk to your teens about starting world wars.
😂😂😂💀
When you really think about it he actually started two world wars.
Remember parents...topics to talk to teens about: drugs, bad...sex, though fun unprotected sex, bad...racism, bad...porn addiction, bad...video game play over 12 hours a day, bad...education much needed, college debt, bad...living at home after 19, bad...unemployment, bad...not knowing your date of birth, bad, well until you assassinate a leader...starting World Wars, very very bad, unless your side wins then you will get a memorial maybe even a statue. Got it mom and dad?
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
Just say no ...
To be fair, he just ignited the flare, there was fuel all over the place.
"Europe is a powderkeg and a fool from the balkans will lot the fuel"
Retired Bismarck to the emperor of Germany
And even then, the month after could have prevented war, but the world was destined towards this massive suicide pact.
@@felixsubakti6907 good ol have a plan bismark, and yep.
This absolutely could have been avoided. The real villains were Berchtold and Sazanov. Austria did not not need to send an ultimatum to Serbia or wait a month before they did. The Russian mobilization is what sent the wheels in motion, diverting the would-be localized Balkan war to a European-wide war.
@@DarthPlato Everyone was aching for clear power relations. If it wouldn't have been Serbia it would have been something else
Without a doubt this guy has to be one of the most influential people in history. When you think about it he's responsible for WW2, the decolonization of the empires and the modern history of the world today all because of what he had one. Created a butterfly effect
Serbian power 🇷🇸🤗
That's not how it works tho, he's not responsible for any of that
@@foxfire1112while he's not directly responsible for those event, he still the one that push the first domino that pretty much change our world forever
@@bunnitomoe3866 Saying someone is responsible is implying they need to be held responsible. You're not going to blame him for anything that happened outside of this event
@@foxfire1112idiot he directly started ww1 that caused empires to collapse and indirectly caused Hitler to come to power and start ww2 regardless he he flop his wings and caused a butterfly affect
“How quickly they forget that all it takes to change the course of history is the will of a single man.” - Captain Price
Pretty sure Makarov says that in the MW3 intro.
"..because all you need to change the world is one good lie and a river of blood." Captain Price
Joker: "Look what I did with some gasoline and a few bullets."
Gavrilo Princip: "Look at what I did with two bullets."
@Xinnie The Pooh Gravilo wasn't too bright.
@@twincities867 looking from a historical perspective, princip was self educated and was very smart. The issue for him is he didn't understand the regional politics of his time. He was easily swayed. The man he killed was the one man he would never have killed. Ferdinand didn't want war. He was the sole person against it.
There are 2 alternative timelines I am curios about,
1. A timeline where princip had access to real information about Ferdinand as a person and his views against war
2. A timeline where Princip survives the war and is liberated. Would be interesting to see if he would have been able to truly start a state for his people and unite them under 1 banner or if he would have seen what the western powers, particularly the United States influence on the region, and align his people under the western flag. Being so central in Europe, i wonder how ONE MAN'S survival would have influenced World War 2
Hope you enjoy your time in Hell, Gavrilo.... And I hope it's the Western hell.. not the socialist hell where they run out of oil...
I so sick of these stupid replies like those the OP made. Time for those to fade away.
chaos... But to be fair, it is like domino's. Some idiot put all the stones in such a way it all falls down by a minor action. Small actions can have big consequences because of the networks we create. WWI was basically a few families fighting and using everything they owned to win. It ended a lot of monarchies...
It's amazing that a boy shot a prince and destroyed 3 empires.
Butterfly effect at it's best
4 actually. Cause Russia also got rekted
@@AshGamer007 That's a stretch. The Russian imperial boat had holes in it for more than two decades already.
Baldrick he shot an ostrich cos he was hungry😂
Every man was once a boy.
Many still are.
One of them even just lost an election.
He didn't just start WW1, he changed the whole world and history.
We Serbs tend to do that, for some reason.
@@Miodrag.VukomanovicBalkans*
It’s crazy to think just how much.. the butterfly effect is such that the world was so changed none of us would have ever been born. The course of history would have been so different there’s no way our grandparents and parents would have been conceiving the next generations in the exact same time and place for any of us to exist at all
Yup
May he rot in hell for what he did 🤷🏻♂️
The irony was that Franz Ferdinand had been keeping the Czar and Kaiser speaking to each other, he was tireless in his attempts to keep the peace. His death not only sparked the war it took out the one senior member of the European elite who realised the catastrophic consequences of a European war.
He should have not visited Sarajevo, because there was high chance of him getting killed and so he got killed, because Serbians hated Austrian empire and so wanted to kill their ruler, so if Franz had never visited Sarajevo. History would have been diffrent.
@@jout738 quite possibly, but history and indeed life, hinges on a sparrow fart
Whoever decided to put colourful expression "vukojebina" in this video - you've made my day!!!!!
Ja nisam mogao da verujem kad sam video :D
Kad sam vidio, odma sam isao pogledati kometare :))
I was laughing so hard... and then I check just in case if that might actually be a real place.
Slavs doing slavic stuff ;))
googling that term lead to an hour of lost time which i enjoyed
Gavrilo Princip: So anyway I started blasting
i’m ducking weeing omg
😂
This guy is the embodiment of "you're never too small to make a difference" but in a negative way.
Princip badgered officers to let him join the Serbian Army but they had to reject him as too frail, sickly. This so humiliated him that he vowed to do something independently. Then came terrorist training where he excelled.
It's negative subjectively. I think it was very positive
@@Priapus212 Yes, starting a war that killed 20 million people which then also laid the groundwork for another war that killed 80 million people is so positive. Princip has more deaths on his hands than Hitler, Stalin, and Mao combined.
@@Neat_profile his actions started the modern world. The fall of monarchies, improvement in science/technology, rise of communism, US becoming a superpower. There's a lot of change which happened, lots positive and lots negative
@@Neat_profile Are you a seething Anglo or Germanic?
When people talk of grand conspiracies as the only way that world shattering events come to pass, I’m reminded of this: a young, penniless teenager and a few friends, fed up with Imperial oppression, armed with a couple of guns and homemade bombs, changed the entire world. Two shots from the gun of a 19 year old, fundamentally changed everything. And THAT is both powerful, and terrifying.
Cute
What’s his religion?
Gavrilo was literally part of a secret society that conspired against the archduke in an effort to create a South Slavic state. If anything it literally proves that grand conspiracies are not far-fetched.
Gavrilo Princip was the catalyst for a conflict that was decades in the making.
A conflict that shaped almost every major event of the 20th Century.
Its gonna shape a LOT more. It destroyed the spirit of my home country germany, we are so guilt ridden that we now piss away our fortune to ungrateful, violent strangers with mindsets from the dark age. Its heartbreaking, really.
@@matthiwi6901 yeah, a shame. If Germany had just stayed neutral in WW1 they’ed probably have all their territory now, and perhaps even had annexed Austria later on.
@@MrLeemurman you seem to be unaware that historians do not dispute the fact that the USSR was gearing up to an invasion of europe, especially germany. The nazis just beat them to it. Germany never could have stayed neutral, as the non aggression pact with USSR was just a farce. The two systems were sworn enemies since the 20s. Germany went fascist after violently ending communist uprisings in the streets.
The point is, the Western allies should never have fought each other. Germany would have subdued the USSR and coexisted with the Western powers, as it was planned.
@@matthiwi6901 that exactly what I mean. If Germany had NOT beat the Russians to it, and had not initiated aggression in both world wars, they’d be in a better place now.
The teenager who inadvertently created anime.
And space travel, and nukes, and the internet
The next person who jumpstarted the cultural change was a mustached artist
Idk what history you guys have been studying but japanese imperial ambitions and subsequent war with the USA is pretty independant of european wars.
And also comic books.
"Lady bit Joffrey, a few heads came off, and the rest is history."
I have a friend whose parents met during the Bosnian Civil War (I was never told whose side they ended up on, but they're genuinely good people). Her dad took a couple rounds and some shrapnel and her mom happened to be working at the medical station he ended up at. She took the metal out, they eventually got married and moved to the US, been together ever since.
When did Bosnia have a civil war? Do you mean genocide in the 90s?
@@A_Ducky fair enough, I'm not going to edit it, but civil war was definitely not the right term
@@TucsonHat
Thank you. From a victim of that genocide/ethnic cleansing. Btw I very much enjoyed the story of your friend's parents finding happiness in such an unexpected place/time. Hugs!! 🤘💙
@@A_Ducky Im glad you survived it, I couldn't begin to imagine the hardship of having to experience that. Despite what my friends parents had to live though, they're incredibly sweet and welcoming people. They give me some hope for the future, they met in a warzone and are now happily married in the States with a daughter who just became a doctor!
🙂✌️💚
@@TucsonHat it was a Civil War. It's just one side did alot of ethnic cleansing
The animosity was growing for decades. He didn't start WWI - he triggered it!
Teens in 2020: we are great in COD
Teens in 1914: Hold my beer, go on to start WW1
how times have changed LOL.
30s and we still play lol
Funny but true
tbh, teens then are 30-40 yo "men" today.
Teens in 1939: Let's start WW2 which will be bigger than the first
Hell of a butterfly effect
Yes. But so are our day to day actions. Some intentional, some not. The pen lost on the bus ride back from the library found it's way to a poet who comforted many with her words, written on a napkin lest she lose a single jewel.
The dog kicked in anger, who turned against humans, and killed a toddler for saying "Here doggy, doggy." deprived us of a 22nd century cure for all cancers.
The old couple a driver swerved to avoid in the intersection, who goes on to endow a new wing to the hospital where woman from Sierra Leon gives birth to the 57th President of these United States.
Yes, the law of unintended consequences is always at play in the affairs of men.
If we think the tangled trail Covid leaves in those who come in contact with it is complicated and devious, everyday words and actions have their own simi-life that changes the story of us forever.
Balkan was already what we called in history class "Barrel of TNT". It just lighted up the string
Germany started ww1
@@godlovesyou1995 tell me this is a joke
@@fabriciamichalsky6779 so u rly think an Austrian royal family member being asassinated (by a terrorist) is enough of an excuse for Germany to immediately invade neutral Russia, France, Belgium and Luxembourg?
The accidental most important dude of the 20th century. 2 world wars and untold carnage can be traced back to him being in the "right place at the right time"
Really interesting story, and I love Simon’s delivery. His voice and cadence are both soothing and impactful at the same time.
The Balkans have a habit of producing far more history than they can consume.
@@MARKO8885VTC i thought it was powder keg
In Serbia we say “That’s what happens when you build a house in the middle of the road”
TRUE
@@deceiver123m explain
@@deceiver123m there's logic behind what you say yet also very cold and even psychopathic thinking.But it's good to know there are pll like that in this world to always be ready for whenever they plan on harm your loved ones to have no mercy on them,to say the most politely as I can.
And posted on 11/11/2020 Exactly 102 years from the date that "Great" war ended...nice...
Also, where I live, it was posted exactly at 11:00
Should have watched the grate war channel. They did day by day videos. The channel was only active from July 28 2014 to November 2018.
@@method2122 it's still active, not doing day by day stuff anymore but still running. Indy moved on to cover WW2 in the same style.
Linguistically "great" is related to the word "gros" both mean "big".
"greater manchester" = "the larger area surrounding manchester" i.e greater = bigger
@@Stettafire No im pretty sure it means gros as in "ew thats gross" , im talking about manchester ofcourse
They weren't "revolvers" that went missing. The assassins were not armed with revolvers. They were Browning designed FN 1910 .380 (9x17mm) pistols. All four have been accounted for and are in collections of museums or private collections. Princip used pistol, serial number 19074, to kill the Archduke.
Yet, for some reason, the guns used have often been misidentified as "revolvers" or the Browning designed FN 1900 pistol.
While all the time, all four pistols had been recovered, all were FN Model 1910 .380s. Go figure.
The pistol is on display at the military museum in Vienna, Austria. Along with the car Ferdinand was riding in when he was assassinated.
I came to make this comment. Well said.
Who cares?
@@marybartley9784 Thanks for caring enough to read and comment.
Simon... I'm from Croatia and hearing you say Vukojebina and giving a description about what that means made me scream laugh for hours. Thank you so much 😂😂😂
Are you okay
In regards to the ending, I'm reminded of a quote that Otto von Bismarck once said. "Europe today is a powder keg and the leaders are like men smoking in an arsenal … A single spark will set off an explosion that will consume us all … I cannot tell you when that explosion will occur, but I can tell you where … Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans will set it off." He was unfortunately right. It wasn't a matter of if WWI would start, but when.
I disagree! There really is no way to know. So many mistakes had to happen for war to start
@@scottydu81 wdym, it was obvious that war was inevitable for a long time. Increasing tension between nations on political and economic fronts, militirisation and formation of groups/allies, Balkan wars, question of who will control east Europe resulting in turkey vs Russia, pan slavism vs young turk movement going on, William II's agressive contentalism policy... All of these things were going on it was obvious war was inevitable. It just needed a spark which was provided by the assassination. So bismark there was right so don't underestimate IQ and prediction of a guy who United Germany at a time when it seemed impossible.
Tensions seem to be similar nowadays. Tbh ever since Covid19 was leaked from the lab, tensions have been high for China, now with Russia invading Ukraine, further hightens tensions.
I feel WW3 is itching close, I wonder where that line will be crossed and ignited
Seems like I hear those echoes today 😒
Otto von Bismarck maybe heard about propecy, that would shape a lot of Europe history.
At age 19, I was getting drunk at random parties, this man at that age, was burning down half the world...
S E R B S
He is hero!
Princip je isti !
@@mikeoneil5770 In this 'modern' world, there will be no ties to land and people, only fleeting allegiances to branded consumables. Nothing worth fighting for, nothing worth living for, nothing worth dying for
Speak for yourself
@@mikeoneil5770 His name will forever be uttered and written in history, learned about and intow became a piece that changed the world forever. This guy will die a nobody cos he drunk at parties, who cares.
He wasn't the cause, he was simply the catalyst. The samurai rebellion that ended in the death of 500 samurai and their culture was not caused by general Saigo or his students but rather the tension brought about by their unwillingness to modernize.
I’ve now watched about 10 of your videos, and I just have to tell you how superb the writing and delivery is! This is one of the best channels I’ve run across on CZcams! I’m going to definitely tell my family and friends about you!! Well done and thank you for teaching me more about some of the most interesting individuals in history!!
The war might have been inevitable, but combined with the time it happened, with the way it happened, with the aftermath, along with how dramatically different the world would have looked, makes Princip possibly the most important man in modern history.
Maybe it's cos I'm h4lve baked but this seems a good answer
Not sure the word important is the right descriptor for an assassin of a National leader. Has that commie feel to it, like how he also precipitated the start of the USSR.
@@Barefoot433 he did start WW1 which had created all of the worlds modern problems
@@josephdozier5592 WW1 has many outcome which is good but unlike Germany and Japan they boost themselves for nationalism to start another World War. Many Empires fall and leads to making a bright light of independence for countries under colonialism also the market competition already started on that time that boost U.S economy on.
In alternate universe/reality the space time continuom would not allow for that.
fun facts , here in sarajevo there used to be a mark of gavrilos footprints from where he shot Franc Ferdinant however they moved the block with the footprints inside of the museum...I walk past that place many times a day
When did they remove em? I remember seein them in like 08 or something
@@TheTisinac I never saw them in person , well in 08 i was 8 years old so i didn't really care.. but i think for quite some time now for sure.
I should remind myself to spit on them.
I saw them there in the summer of 1986. I had no idea that there would be war again in a short time.
@Dragan L Probably not.
I think we all can now agree that the person who really was responsible for WW1 and all of it's impacts on the world is the person who yelled "Hey, your'e going the wrong way!" to Franz Ferdinand's driver
People can't understand one thing. Such complex things must be viewed from several directions of time and opportunity in Bosnia. As a Bosnian Serb, whose ancestors lived here for thousands of years, I know the details of the genocidal acts of the Austro-Hungarians in Bosnia. Many of them ended up in Austro-Hungarian death camps.
The assassination in Sarajevo was a drop in the ice,the whole tense situation in Europe. To understand its origins, they would have to live here in the Balkans at the time. When asked at the trial in the fall of 1914 why he killed the Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne, Gavrilo Princip answered: "The people suffer because they are completely orphans, because they consider them cattle ... I am a village son to take revenge and I am not sorry." is a turning point in what will happen.
Princip's close friend Borivoje Jevtic told future historians that "when it comes to research and research of what is in us", the economic and political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina must be understood. Just a few hundred kilometers from Vienna, where modern European culture flourishes, where Gustav Klimt and Sigmund Freud created, the Austro-Hungarian political elite in Bosnia and Herzegovina maintains a feudal serf system. The Bosnian serf, like his father Gavril Princip, paid taxes to the emperor, taxes to the spahis, and was forced to pay the Austro-Hungarian administration. Although this period of European history is known as the Belle Epoque, it was not like that for many.
Despite the fact that Bosnia and Herzegovina, where Gavrilo Princip grew up, has ten times more gendarmerie stations than schools, Austria-Hungary presented its government and administration in Bosnia and Herzegovina as "civilization missions". Senior Viennese officials said they were bringing "European culture" and "European values" to areas previously cut off from civilization and culture. "The Austro-Hungarian monarchy is not a 'European missionary' in Bosnia and Herzegovina," but a conqueror and kidnapper. Young Bosnians were aware that the mission of civilization was a cover for undemocratic government. . The Habsburg monarchy boasted of the magnificent facades of the Sarajevo City Hall, but the Young Bosnians noticed that no one was talking about the hundreds of police stations behind the City Hall. The occupier came to "exploit and peel, not raise."
The people of Young Bosnia wrote that the occupier also brought "an army of hungry and unscrupulous officials" to divide the state with his colonists, and "tear the locals apart". Borivoje Jevtić pointed out that the assassins came from the ranks of "humiliated and insulted". Chased from the doorstep like a dog, a foreigner in his country, the Young Bosnian felt "where it hurt, "Jevtic noted.
The details of his stay in prison have not been confirmed with certainty until today, and they are known only on the basis of the testimonies of individual prisoners and the memories of the guards. The prisoners in Terezin mostly served their sentences in horrible living conditions. They fed them irregularly, constantly tortured them, and if someone got sick - they were left to die rather than be treated. All these "treatments" were many times worse for the "emperor killer". It was rumored that Gavrilo received food only every fifth day, and that he was tortured every day in particularly cruel ways. Allegedly, they put it in a wooden barrel in which a lot of nails had been driven in before, so they would roll it in it while driving nails into Gavrilo tortured body.
And one more thing, Gavrilo Princip declared himself a Yugoslav (atheist), and Young Bosnia was not a Serbian organization but a Yugoslav one that sought to unify all southern Slavs in any form. The members of Young Bosnia (many of whom participated in the assassination of Franz Ferdinand) were Serbs, Muslims and Croats.
Gavrilo (Petar) Princip - 25 July 1894 - 28 April 1918, the voice of humiliated, insulted and oppressed,rest in peace!
“The place where wolves go to F***”
just balkan things.
Wolves require complete privacy to start going at it
Isn't that a danzig album?
Yeah in Serbia we still use that term vukojebina or вукојебина
@@MilanNedicSerbia i think the term is balkan universal 😂
I live in Slovenia and Slovenes use the term aswell
Everything starts with a small domino and ripples out.. Bear that in mind and you'll never ever question your self worth again.
We all try to throw a stone into the centre of a pond. Will it hit near the edge and cause short ripples in the wrong direction? Or will it hit the centre with just the right energy and angle, sending out ripples that are felt and altered through out the entire pond? And how can we tell the difference? Only time and effort knows.
Bare
@@_Eric._ nah
@@forcedtohaveahandle meh
The butterfly effect
Awesome video. Thank you for telling the story of how a murder of two people, changed the course of the human race. Both of my grandfathers fought for the Kaiser in "The Great War". Both survived. One past away just after I was born and the other was cut down in his prime of life at age 92 - consuming daily doses of whiskey amd cigarettes.
In his 70s, he started telling me stories of WW1, a change of heart as he never spoke of it before. Not ever.
Horrible stuff - really many levels beyond comprehension for those who never had to fight in war. Oddly, some of the very scenes depicted in the movie, "1917", he told me about in the 1960s. He was one of the ones playing "football" (soccer) with the enemy during the Christmas Truce in 1914.
Rest in peace Grandpa. You were one serious tough guy. I miss you.
Its because of this man that everything we know today exists.
Whether good or bad, he certainly made irreversible changes to the world!
@F**k KKKonservatives! The first two World Wars, the Cold War even 9/11 and anime for that matter.
All because of one butterfly effect that brought empires to their ruin.
If WW1 started differently sooner or later then there might have still be monarchies in Eastern Europe today....and colonies in some cases.
We have this man to thank and loathe since we might not even have this conversation here if it wasn't for his actions...as thoroughly destructive in hindsight as they were. Yugoslavia, which was his Slavic dream, even became true.
So I'm not exaggerating when I say that with two bullets he had changed everything and gave AH the perfect excuse to declare war on Serbia. And the rest is history. Sure some events might have happened differently (& some even independently from his actions) with him out of the picture but that timeline would've been night and day to ours. Small deed, big impact.
He's basically God.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lol Vukojebina is a name for any secluded place
I almost choked
Možeš zamisliti suđenje?
Sudac: gospodine Princip, di ste rođeni?
Gavrilo: u Vukojebini
@@xervislane770 idk what this says but 🔥🔥🔥
@@xervislane770 😂😂😂😂😂
@@r.i.pnicemusic "Can you imagine the trial?
Judge: Mr. Princip, where are you born?
Gavrilo: in Vukojebina "
Vukojebina means secluded place far away from civilization. Those places are common in Blakans where people live in mountains a far away forests.
An old Balkan tale:
One day a farmer was in his field working when a Samodiva (water fairy) greets him and says 'I will grant you one wish, but know that whatever you wish for I'll give double to your neighbours'
The farmer thinks about this and says 'take one of my eyes.'
True lol
In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king
Polish version: Some fisherman cough a golden fish.
- Release me, then I will grant you two wishes and double that for your neighbour said fish.
- Ok. I want a beatyful and good in bad women and remove me one testicle.
@@Pandzikizlasu80 I like this one LOL. Good job Polska.
@@Pandzikizlasu80 i didnt understand the punchline
If not for Princip countless great WWI movies, and possibly WWII movies, may have never been made. I salute him.
20:21 Amazing photograph ! Literally a huge moment in history !!!
Vukojebina 😂 is introduced to the world . Nice job Simon!
Vukojebina, the colorful place right next to Pripizdina
@@kkkkkkkkkkkkkkjable right next to new pičkovac
Right next to Donji ljubiš
Behind Kurmijaneš.
14:46 - 15:13 that is the best analogy of Princip’s “motivation” I’ve ever heard of. Very well said Simon, and props to the writer of the video.
It had me laughing pretty hard 😂
I was going to say the same. With that analogy and "the place where wolves go to f*ck", the writer of this episode should take a bow.
I think it really nicely illustrates just how toxic and extreme nationalism and irredentism had gotten in Serbia.
@@kreol1q1q no
Cultural and historical literacy - such an important part of politics and avoiding conflict.
Gavrilo Princip is a hero!.“Our shadows will walk through Vienna, wonder the castles, haunt the gentlemen”- Gavrilo Princip
killing a pregnant woman, what a brave hero!
@@lepredator1789 you say that just cause he's Serbian.
Their ideology was to start war anyway, he tried to kill Franc Ferdinand and his wife to stop their ideology, but anyway they declared war. If Gavrilo didn't kill them, Englishman would.
The 4th of July/9-11 analogy is actually pretty good, well played Simon
How appropriate since it’s actually the 102 year anniversary of the end of WW1
Hey have you ever considered that maybe it was intentional
@@richardimo4433 yes I have... and your point would be?
@wakenbaker-uk better late than never
@@shadowking1380 my point is you seem so surprised about it the reaction seems almost stupid but then again I guess it doesn't matter that much
@wakenbaker-uk nope. They did Franz Ferdinand 2 years ago. This is perfect.
“Our shadows will walk through Vienna, wonder the castles, haunt the gentlemen”- Gavrilo Princip
hell yea
Naše će sjene hodati po dvoru, lutati po Beču, plašiti gospodu!
Legendo
You really like this guy huh
@@joeshine8514He is a hero
It would be very intresting to see what Prinicip thought when a guard passed him newspapers showing scenes of devastation after the declaration of war.
"Our shadows shall walk across Vienna, wander through the palace, scare the gentlemen." 🇷🇸❤☦
When taught this in school in America, 2015, they told us they were young and almost failed and princip got lucky. Didn't tell us they were smart, just young rebels. Thanks for sharing more information than literal school does
What we learn in the North American school system is so alternated it’s sad.
@@xxxxxJAYMILLZxxxxxxx well also remember that the US is the US so it makes sense that they would prioritize their own history with lots of details and quickly gloss over the history of others, and every nation does this
Meaning if you want better detailed accounts of history you'll have to look elsewhere that what is the bare minimum of mandatory schooling, typically higher education such as college or university
Actually, they did almost fail. Two bombs were thrown that failed to kill the Archduke and Countess before the third was aborted. The young insurgents fled their separate ways to avoid getting caught. Gavrilo Princip went to a cafe to have lunch when the royals passed. He ran out there and killed them both. Yes, he was lucky.
Many Americans and Westerners in general believe this was a sinister plot by "evil Serbia" to destabilize the region so they can dominate it through war. That's what a Western education teaches.
It's technically correct. If you distill it down to the basics of the situation that day it was all luck that Princip would be the one to actually kill Ferdinand. Let's just be glad the US Education system got the names and date right at least.
Since history is written by the victors, he was written off as a petty "nationalist"....What you should have learned, is that him and his co-conspirators were terrorists, who were trained by the Al-Qaeda of the Balkans at the time, which was the Black Hand. Serbia was a state sponsor of terrorism, and Hitler should have blamed Serbia for WW1, instead of the Jews.
I had the chance to be locked up for 2 minutes in Princip's cell in the Terezín fortress. There was no light coming in. I wouldnt want to spend there a day, let alone 4 years.
More details please
@@ibrahimabubakar5 Small room with no light source, heavy steel doors and no sound coming in. Really isolated place. I remember The tour guide asking me for assistance and then shoving me inside and locking the doors. Thank god i dont have claustrofobia.
@@vojtechzahry9022 would you say he was a hero or villian
@@ibrahimabubakar5 I think its a bit more complicated than just labeling him. But judging by the video, he was misguided and radicalized and couldnt have possibly known how big the consequences were going to be.
@@vojtechzahry9022 He knew what he was doing.
The freedom of all Slavs is a cause worth dying for.
I'm so glad I watched this! It gave so much more pre-text to WW1 than I was aware of! Cheers Simon and team!
His method may have been misguided but you can’t fault him for wanting self determination of his people.
"Full time peasant" I know that feel
LOL
im crying on Vukojebina..the way he said it..and the way he explained it...damn you nailed it..:)
Im from Balkan btw
Something I keep trying to explain to my foreign friends :D
Wolfsexland
@@antlerking69 that's literally the English meaning but sounds silly in English lol
Wolfsexland is my new prog metal band name
@@suprugica Next, try to explain them "plačipička"
Damn. This was very informative. I had a Slovenian exchange student in 1995, I never did hear from him after he left that following year. I should have looked into the conflict better back then and understood his plight. He was the nicest dude. And he never brought up anything about it. Understandably. He never tried playing the poor me card. He was a stand up guy. Hindsight really sucks sometimes. I wish I would have been closer with him. . Hope your ok Alesh, wherever you are.....
Thanks for the video
Interestingly Gavrilo Princip was sentenced to 'only' 20 years in prison, which is remarkable given that many suspects in Serbian army were executed on suspicion of a plot. It was a maximum sentence for his age, which again I find amazing that 100 years ago justice system was more lenient than it is now in the USA, where teenagers can be put away for life for lesser crime
It was not really lenient for Princip and his comrades. Many were sickly young men, dying of tuberculosis. That is why they were eager to self-sacrifice. Princip was chained in a damp cell. He was routinely beaten, tortured with nails driven in his flesh, forced to sleep on boards with no mattress/blankets in winter. No sanitation. Rats, lice. The sadistic guards spit in the slop they fed him. His condition worsened till he was covered with pus and oozing lesions. They had to amputate his arm. Princip died within 4 years. Weighed 88 lbs. No guards were punished.
Fantastic.
In my (HS) senior history class, we were asked to write a final paper on a single topic: The most influential person of the 20th century (this was 1980). Most of my classmates chose Churchill, Hitler, FDR, or MLK. I chose Princip. As I recall, I earned an A-, but my biggest regret was not saving the paper. I think I tossed it after graduation. LOL. Thanks, Simon, for "taking me back" to my youth!
"The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world" - G Man, Half Life series.
Volio bih igrati polu-život 1 jednom.
@@quakeknight9680 ye
I was taught of this guy in my sophomore year of high school 2002. Never forgot of him mostly because of his bizarre audacity to the likes of reaching Sir Ferdinand. Always thought it made for some of the classic villain backstory inspirations we ended up with.
Stuff like this always trips me out, like choices shaping major events that effect humanity and the world and kinda play out like steps leading to it and like what could’ve been if those choices were reversed. It makes me crazy but no doubt it’s one of the reality’s of this world that we all reflect on
Youth: “We are the, future!”
Gavrilo: Haha. Gun goes pew pew.
😁
What youth? Princip i know eventhough its been nearly a century from his death. 🤔
Well, OVER a century. I thought that he died in 1924. 🤔
The bullets which inadvertently started WW2 as well
Mike - I was going to bring this up as well. Interesting that from one action a trigger would be born. 🍻
Only cos a mustached failed artist stomped about in Linz saying nein nein nein
@@annescholey6546 People only listened to the guy saying nein, nein, nein because there already was tension building up.
Most of Europe could have done better post-WW1, each country involved was responsible for WW2.
@@Stettafire Could done better...but the winners were greedy, and joyfully gave away huge amount of land wich is not theirs.
... And the cold war, Vietnam, Korean war, etc...
Hi Simon, greetings from Croatia. I just wanted to mention that although usually when someone covers a topic on some foreign to them countries, it's not rare that they make a mistake or two and it doesn't suprise me really, especialy when one is covering historic or political facts. Based on that I'd like to point out that you did it 100% correct, also thanks for amazing contet as always. Keep up the good work.
wow, how great analogies! great work!
He starred in the original Wrong Turn
Sike
Legend tells that shortly before his death in prison, Princip inscribed a warning on the walls of his cell: “Our shadows will walk through Vienna, wander the court, frighten the lords.”
This man shaped the entire 20th century
This is good and fair explication of the events! Thumb up!
Imagine being known as the guy who started one of the bloodiest wars in history. Absolutely mind blowing.
He did not start the ww1. He merely put things in motion that will lead to the ww1. It was austria that started the war with the declaration of the war.
@@gordanpocuc6458 a war which they would not have a pretext for without his actions. So yes, he actually did start the war
@@slimdiddyd i still disagree... Hötzendorf was actively looking for a war with serbia, so the war was inevitable. Princip did accelerate the start of the war, but it was militaristic and openly hostile austria that wanted and started the war.
@@gordanpocuc6458 All major powers were culpable for WW1 , you have to remember their was basically a mini Cold War between the European powers leading up to WW1 . In which both sides were becoming more militaristic and aggressive.
@Greg Gaming Acting like that, won't get people on your side you know.
Whoever decided to put "vukojebina" as his place of birth deserves a knighthood
Vukojebina is a legendary name
🤣🤣🤣🤣
As a Croat I’ll tell you about vukojebina so we use that jame for any place that is extremely remote populated or not for example in the USA you could say the deserts of texas are one big ole vukojebina
As a Croat I’ll tell you about vukojebina so we use that jame for any place that is extremely remote populated or not for example in the USA you could say the deserts of texas are one big ole vukojebina
Rodio sam se u Vukojebini.
Have never heard of him at all. He should be talked about when they teach about WW1.
Yes, they do talk about him i schools
"The place where wolves go to f***"...haha, you teach me a lot Simon, but this piece was one for the ages. Nice work.
The pistols used were not “revolvers” they were FN Model 1910, they were semiautomatic.
A design by The Great One, John Moses Browning.
@@Isildun9 So BrOwNiNg StArTeD Ww1...
I'm worried about how you know this.
@@Demonetization_Symbol I know it because of too many trips to the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, in Vienna. A fantastic museum.
@@gew1898 Europe is so interesting. Also, I love how confusing that name is.
1:30 - Chapter 1 - In the vujojebina
3:30 - Chapter 2 - A history of violence
6:20 - Chapter 3 - Crisis years
9:50 - Mid roll ads
10:55 - Chapter 4 - Belgrade blues
13:40 - Chapter 5 - The dominoes fall
17:05 - Chapter 6 - Death in sarajevo
20:55 - Chapter 7 - Death of the old world
Bruhh "the vukojebina"
Live this channel and mark Felton productions. Best historical channels
Thank you for teaching
I'm not going to lie: this is one of the very best ever done on BioGraphics. It is very hard to separate everything that followed from the events (not just a single event) which precipitated it. Excellent job.
The death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was not the reason for the start of WW1. In fact, nobody really cared about him becoming the next emperor.
The emperor Franz Joseph didn't like him, nor did he consider Franz as a good successor for the throne.
Even the people didn't care about him. In the day after, his death wasn't even front news in the papers.
But his death was the perfect excuse, that Austrian Field Marshall Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, needed to invade Serbia.
In the last couple of years, Hötzendorf had made dozens of request for emperor Franz Joseph to allow the invasion of Serbia.
But the emperor always said no. The death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was the perfect excuse to demonize and justified a war with Serbia.
And it worked.
Boy did that excuse to go to war backfire
Yip Conrad but looking for the slightest excuse...
@@mammuchan8923 who would've thought that the shots from one man would change the world
Actually, even with that excuse, Franz Joseph was reluctant to go to war, but the Kaiser, wanting a "place in the sun" for Germany, egged him on, promising to support him.
winj3r Exactly. 👍
In the larger sense, the precipitation of event he started then went on to start WWII.
Last year I saw Gavrilo Princip's grace at Terezin, in Czechia. It was an overwhelming moment.
OMG - hearing Simon say "vukojebina" is just priceless!!! 🤣
Mr. Princip's picture in the thumbnail looks like me at college
Don't shoot.
That reminds me of how my grandfather looks like Joseph Stalin.
I think you did a great job explaining in this video
Suggestion:
Bayinnaung. He created the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia and he not very well known. So, it will be interesting to learn more about him.
Who? 😁
NAH THE GREATEST EMPIRE THAT CONQUERED SOUTHEAST ASIA WAS SOVIET UNION AND PERSIA EMPIRE :) ! ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND RUSSIA :3 UNTIL CHINA END RUSSIA
@@nguyenhoanglong420 what part of “Southeast” do you not understand? Alexander the Great never got to East Asia, let alone Southeast Asia. Russia was North Asia and Persia was Western Asia. The mongols never got to Southeast Asia and the Chinese only dipped their toes in a couple times.
Or Merong Mahawangsa
On the wall of the cell where he died, Princip wrote: "Our shadows will walk around Vienna. Wander around the court, they will frighten the lords..."
„Наше ће сјене ходати по Бечу. Лутати по двору, плашити господу...”
I didn't know that 🤔
@joss vicitoli Lol he is not even a serial killer, double homicide is not a mass murder.
Your logic says that if I slap you and you cousin kills me and my family after I am a killer and suicidal maniac...
@joss vicitoli hahahaaahaha so wrong. bosnia was majority Serbs, muslims,croats. that order.
@joss vicitoli That is so wrong that I find it amusing you think that. But on a serious note I am very interested in your sources because I have never encountered such claims. Especially that Croats were a majority in Bosnia, I never knew there were so many Muslim and Orthodox Croats... You live, you learn... :D
@joss vicitoli And all that was happening in the 19th and 20th century? Or you just skipped couple of centuries to say something that has noting to do with what you said earlier?
I appreciate this. Thank you
24:34 "that hot July day". You mean June 28th? Jokes aside, this was excellent and entertaining bar the small error. Great job!
Crazy to think his bullet ended the Ottoman Empire, an empire that had been around since the days of Byzantium
And lead to the end of the German empire, British empire and Japanese imperialism and technically Russia too
The Austrian Empire, the British empire, the new German one that Bismarck spent 40 years building.
@@rhinoceros2469 that’s why the Japanese Empire reaches its Zenith 15-20 years after WW1....
@@joshuapatrick682
Bruh use some brain
He is talking about world war 2 which was indirectly started by him.
@@rhinoceros2469 nope japanese empire just started to grow and became a big empire ater ww1 german empire lost its overseas territories not its mainland territories british empire grew after ww1 russia ended up in civil war
he looks like Lee Harvey Oswald's depressed cousin
Thumbnail pic looked so much like Giovanni Ribisi, had to check the comments because of it.
That Princip would meet the heir again wasn’t just sad or unfortunate for Europe; nations far away also felt the effects of that subsequent meeting. They don’t call it World War 1 for nothing.
Fantastic episode
On the other hand im 27 and havent done nothing with my life; this guy started something which brought down 4 empires
@Libby Berman you expect people to use perfect grammar in a commemt on a youtube video?
@Libby Berman you're*
@@fcukugimmeausername *yer
@@lessthanpinochet yee*
@Libby Berman because if you are writing to someone at work, that is a proffessional enviroment i.e when you need to present yourself a certain way, unlike youtube which is a casual setting
One random guy can't start a war, countries and their leaders can. Austro-Hungarian Empire already wanted a war so they could take over Serbian territories, Gavrilo Princip's actions were used as an excuse to do just that. If he didn't do anything on that day, they would just find some other reason to occupy Serbia, it was only a matter of time. So Gavrilo didn't start WW1, Austria-Hungary did. Everyone who knows a thing or two about politics and situtaion of that time can confirm this, look around the internet for a bit and you'll find the same answer.
You’re correct to a certain degree. If I douse a house with fuel and then walk away while another person comes by and strikes a match, who started the fire?
"Everyone who knows a thing or two about politics and situtaion of that time can confirm this, look around the internet for a bit and you'll find the same answer."
Nope. The topic is hotly contested among historians up to this day, with increasingly favourable views being afforded to interpretations pointing at just how not-inevitable WWI really was. I think Simon explained it rather concisely with the remark that had the shots been fired a bit earlier, or a bit later, things would have been very different.
But even that aside, Austria-Hungary never desired any Serbian territory, mostly because Serbia was an economically dead backwater filled with a ton of extremely nationalistic slavs, and the Empire had quite enough of those at home. The demands for war coming from Hotzendorf (ignored by the Emperor as they were) were for a punitive war, to punish and humiliate Serbia, and force it's government back into the Austrian sphere of influence. No conquest or annexation was ever desired.
Did entete blame German for starting war ?
@@kreol1q1q Wrong. Go be dumb somewhere else, dont try to confuse.
@@huanromanriqelme716 "Empire had enough of those at home" - which suggests that nationalists were never considered an unsolvable problem. PS: A reminder that in two short decades they will be dissolving Czechia, deconstructing Poland, carrying out genocide in Yugoslavia while drawing explicit plans on turning Rus into a Germanic lebensraum. Seems difficult to assume that in 15 years someone could go from having no claims on Serbia to drawing plans on everything; that's quite a mental leap.
That bit at 15:00 was absolute gold. Thank you for that imagery.
Great video!!
He didn't really start the war, more like he made a reason for Austro Hungary to attack Serbia
Thereby starting the war, ipso facto, he started the war
Also killed the only man who had the power and inclination to stop them.
@@scottydu81 No. He didn't start the World War.
Thats like saying 9/11 didn't start the war on terror 🤦♂️
@@willb66jgf What war on terror?
In the Vukojebina this made me laugh out loud cause I'm a Serbian national and I know what it means as do many others who are listening to this in the Bosnia and Croatia and Montenegro I literally fell out of the chair I was sitting in when I read that 😂😂
Sve je nas Šakabenta dovukao iz vukojebina, al nikog nije briga ;)
@@edwincasimir28 ko je to?🤔 I da slažem se sa tobom 😂😂
Suze su mi izisle na oci od smijanja na "Vukojebinu", legendarno
The wolves were doing what? 😲
@@sandybarnes887 More wolves 😅 Vukojebina and Bogu iza nogu "behind god's legs" are the ways to say that something is remote and far away from civilization, very creative ways to say that
How can anyone dislike any of these videos ?? This guy is brilliant and the videos are amazing !!
Next time my mom says I gave her a hard time during my teenage years I'm so pointing out this dude. Nothing I did was nearly that bad.