Franz Ferdinand was an excuse to start ww1, not the cause. The declining monarchies in Germany and other countries were looking for any excuse at that time to flex their remaining muscle in the face of a world which increasingly didn’t need them.
It was the last song of monarchist expansion.
But yes, killing Franz Ferdinand was the catalyst that gave them the excuse they needed. If it hadn’t been that though, it would have been something else shortly after they would have seized on.
Me, an Austrian woman:
From what I read in some history books, the assassination of Franz Ferdinand was just one of many pieces that led to WWI.
I was taught that the consensus amongst historians is that it would have happened regardless
As if there are no other pieces at the present time
Yeah, but that meme implies causation, and I can’t agree with that.
It was an action which was taken as a reason to start a war, so yes, there was causation
Ever hear of Franz Ferdinand?
“I don’t listen to that hipster shit.”
But they are in fire!
This ignorance of history is why we’re destined for a repeat lmao
Oh wait…
More specifically, the sandwich that he stopped to grab, in public, after having just survived MULTIPLE failed assasination attempts in a parade!
Honestly, let’s take away the politics. Let’s take away the original reasons for the assasination attempts. Let’s take away the nationality, and culture.
The fact that you sat in an open top car during a parade, witnessed MULTIPLE assasination attempts fail as you drove through the public, SURVIVED UNHARMED, and your first thought was “I’m gonna get a sandwich”? Yeah, Franz deserved what he got.
I’d be hungry after all of that, too.
Would you perhaps say that he was… hungarian after that parade?
It was the assassin that suposedly was getting the sandwich, but it’s a made up story.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gavrilo-princips-sandwich-79480741/
