The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

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🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Europe in 1914 was a tinderbox of imperial tensions and the spark that would light the conflagration would be the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. But there is much more to this story than simply the murder of two royals on the street of Sarajevo. Archduke Franz Ferdinand was an often misunderstood figure seemingly hard and old-fashioned. But in private he was a dedicated family man and husband who had married for love against the wishes of the Emporer and he and Sophie had endured snubs and humiliation at court because of it. He had travelled the world and hoped to reform the Austrian-Hungarian empire he was supposed to one day rule. Sue Woolmans, historian and author of The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Murder that Changed the World, joins the podcast to discuss the real Franz Ferdinand. She guides Dan through the life of Franz Ferdinand and the incompetence, bad luck and chance on the day that would lead to the death of the Archduke and begin a century of conflict.

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0:49.4	We have got a very special episode of the podcast today because it's the 28th of June,
0:54.0	which as everybody knows, is the day on which our chute friends Ferdinand drove into Sarajevo
1:01.0	and survived one assassination attempt. And then tragically was felt by another assassin's bullet.
1:08.4	He and his wife Sophie were killed today in 1914.
1:14.2	Also, the Treaty of Versailles was signed five years the day later on.
1:19.2	So in some ways, the first World War began and ended on this day. The assassination of our
1:25.5	chute friends Ferdinand, this extraordinary tale of bad luck and bad decision making,
1:29.6	a tale about which you can't help thinking what would have happened if anything had gone differently.
1:34.0	Was that gigantic conflict between Europe's powers inevitable?
1:37.9	Was that the 20th century? Or could the world have been very different today?
1:42.4	A Middle East still governed by the Ottoman Empire. Eastern Central Europe dominated by some
1:48.9	loose confederation of Austro-Hungarian rule. A massive Germany. No Poland. Some feckless
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