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Shadow of a Gunman: Gavril Princip´s afterlife

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on 28 June 2011 by delclem

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The frail-looking student who on 28 June 1914 shot the Austrian crown prince Franz Ferdinand and his Czech wife Sophie does not rest in peace: Gavril Princip is one of the many ghosts that rumble in the cultural memory of Central Europe like a nocturnal flatulence.

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