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Princip's Bridge

Sarajevo

Water carriers cross Princip's Bridge on a day with a working ceasefire. Normally this spot was pretty hot, and to cross the bridge was not an option. It was at the far end of the bridge that Gavrilo Princip shot Archduke Ferdinand, setting off World War One. The museum commemorating the act had been looted, but the footprints in the cement which marked the spot where he stood were still there. Princip was 19 at the time. Duchess Sophie, who was pregnant, also died in the attack. Princip was spared the death penalty because of his age and locked up at Theresienstadt prison in Czechoslovakia, then part of Austro-Hungary, and there he died of tuberculosis in 1918.

Leica M6 ,21mm 2.8 Elmarit,Kodak Tri-X 400

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