Since all the major details of the storyline up with historical accounts, there is some plausibility to the theory of the assassin’s lunchtime snack. Somehow, he popped out back on the original route, lining up perfectly with Gavrilo Princip’s prime position outside the delicatessen.

He was reportedly hoping to make his way to a hospital to meet his injured men when the motorcade found itself at Schiller’s.

The incident forced him to divert from the original route his motorcade was taking through Sarajevo, and then he got lost. The fuse reportedly burned so long that it bounced off the vehicle, dropping onto the ground and injuring soldiers while Franz Ferdinand escaped unscathed. Phil Hornshaw writes one of the seven would-be assassins hoping to kill the Archduke mucked up an attempt to blow up his car with a grenade. While fulfilling Otto von Bismarck’s famous prophecy that. The shots that Gavrilo Princip fired on June 28th, 1914 started one of the bloodiest wars in human history to date.

The documentary’s writer, Richard Bond, reportedly told the Smithsonian his meticulous research included resources in a number of languages, and said: “It’s possible that ‘sandwich’ was a colloquial translation that appeared in these sources”.Īccording to a fact check in, the coincidences continue. Gavrilo Princip entered history as the man who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand thanks to the Archduke’s tragically uninformed driver, thus beginning World War I. The Archduke’s car got lost and just happened to re-emerge on the original route, near the spot where 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip stopped for lunch.