Arrest of a Suspect in Sarajevo is a widely circulated press photograph taken in the immediate aftermath of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, and published on
Arrest of a Suspect in Sarajevo, 1914
According to historian Christopher Andrew, the photograph shows the arrest of Ferdinand Behr, an innocent bystander.
Austrian weekly Wiener Bilder, a magazine supplement featuring the photograph captioned as the arrest of Gavrilo Princip, 5 July 1914.
Postcard published by Philipp Rubel, printed with a caption identifying the suspect as "bomb thrower Čabrinović".
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Austria-Hungary, also referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire and officially as the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, was a multi-national empire in Central Europe under a constitutional dual monarchy tha
Arrest of a Suspect in Sarajevo
…who carried out the assassination and whose actions helped to trigger the First World War. The photograph, which shows a young man being led away by Austro-Hungarian gendarmes, appeared on the front page of the Viennese magazine Wiener Bilder on 5 July 1914. It was subsequently reproduced in newspapers, schoolbooks…
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Bosnian Muslim resistance during the battle of Sarajevo in 1878 against the Austro-Hungarian occupation
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