THE GREAT WAR *VIRTUAL TOUR*

HOW DID THE GREAT WAR BEGIN


It is a fact that history is written by the Victors of War! 

Archduke Ferdinand On The Day Of The Attack
Historians and Leaders alike have, for all time, exaggerated and manipulated the facts of Military Conflicts in order to glorify their own Country. As a result, the public has been misled into believing it was Germany who was to blame for the Great War of 1914 to 1918. Following extensive research, it has been proven that Germany, although they had trained for many years in a Niederwerfung Strategie (Swift and decisive strategy of annihilation), was not to blame for the outbreak of World War One. In fact, the German Military acted in retaliation to Russian and French invasions; thereby, mobilising its Armies in defence of its Ally, and its own borders from Military Forces who were trying to occupying their land. 

Archduke Ferdinand
Historians would argue that the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, by Gavrilo Princip, part of the Black Hand Movement, also known as Apis, in Sarajevo on the 28th June 1914 sparked World War One. However, this was not the case; yes, it was the catalyst, but the Serbians and Austro-Hungarians had a long-standing relationship of hatred and mistrust. Furthermore, it has been proven that the Serbian Secret Service was heavily involved in the training of Apis for a future attack on the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Indeed, following an enquiry on the 30th June 1914, and with the confessions from the six students who carried out the killings, the Serbian Military was directly linked to the assassination. Four browning pistols and six grenades were used to attack the cortege of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo; two grenades did not detonate, and were recovered along with the pistols; those grenade serial numbers were matched to a batch stored in the Kragujevac Military Armoury in Serbia; thereby, implementing the Serbian Military.



The Assassination
The first attack on the Archdukes cortege was not successful, the attackers were not fully trained, he emerged unscathed from the explosion of a bomb that bounced off the folded roof of his convertible and exploded under a car following behind him in his motorcade. However, after the attack the driver took a wrong turn down a random street where he halted the cortege opposite a cafe. It turned out the attackers were stood there discussing the failure; was this planned, was the chauffeur part of the assassination team? The attackers then had a second chance to kill the Archduke; however, the Archduke was wearing a bulletproof vest at the time; that said, some historians say that he forgot to wear the vest on that day. The Royal Armouries confirmed that the bulletproof silk vest has the capabilities to stop bullets. Princip, the assassin, was so hemmed in by the crowd that he was unable to pull out and prime the bomb he was carrying. Instead, he was forced to resort to his pistol, but failed to actually aim it. According to his own testimony, Princip confessed: “Where I aimed I do not know,” adding that he had raised his gun “against the automobile without aiming. I even turned my head as I shot.” Even allowing for the point-blank range, it is pretty striking, given these circumstances, that the killer fired just two bullets, and yet one struck Franz Ferdinand’s wife, Sophie, who was sitting alongside him, while the other hit the heir to the throne. It is astonishing that both rounds proved almost immediately fatal. Sophie was hit in the stomach, and her husband in the neck, the bullet severing his jugular vein. There was nothing any doctor could have done to save either of them.


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