Black Hand (Serbia)
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Unification or Death, popularly known as the Black Hand, was a secret military society formed in May 1911 by officers in the Army of the Kingdom of Serbia.
Early members of the Black Hand
Ritual cross of the Black Hand
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Dragutin Dimitrijević
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Dragutin Dimitrijević, better known by his nickname Apis, was a Serbian army officer who was the main leader of the Black Hand, a paramilitary secret society devoted to South Slav irredentism that org
Black Hand (Serbia)
…Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914, triggering World War I, and for the earlier assassination of the Serbian royal couple in 1903, under the aegis of Captain Dragutin Dimitrijević (a.k.a. "Apis"). The society formed to unite all of the territories with a South Slavic majority that were not then ruled by either Serbia or Montenegro…
Dimitrijević, c. 1900
Dragutin Dimitrijević (right) and his associates
Dragutin Dimitrijević (left), Dušan Glišić and Antonije Antić