Who were the Black Hand gang in world war I?
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Who were the Black Hand gang in world war I?
I just came to this page to find out how to merge the game on my tablet with a fresh install on my cell. But anyway, the Black Hand were not a gang. It was the pejorative name assigned to the Serbian revolutionary organization, Ujedinjene ili Smrtl ("Unity or Death") by Viennese cafe journalists. (Very much the same way that the name, "Mau Mau" was given to Kenyans who wanted freedom from British colonial occupation half a century later, was smeared on them by British press agents.)The organization was nominally led by the chief of military intelligence in the pre-World War I Serbian Army, Dragutin Dimitrijevich, who was better known by his nickname, "Apis," Latin for "the bee." When the Austrian Crown Prince of the Dual Monarchy, Franz Ferdinand, made a state visit to Sarajevo on June 28th, the day of the Serbian national holiday, two members of Ujedinjene ili Smrt; Gavrilo Princip and Vasa Chubrilovich, made assassination attempts on his life. The second attempt, by Princip, was successful. Historians are still debating where the motivating push behind this assassination came from. Some credit Apis but more recent speculation suggests the foreign office or intelligence services of any of the three other members of the Triple Entente; Russia, France or Great Britain, played the key role.
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