He suggested instead as far as he could tell, the rumor sprang from a British-made documentary called “Days that Shook the World.”Ībout five minutes in, the script stated: “Gavrilo Princip has just eaten a sandwich, and is now standing outside Schiller’s delicatessen … Completely by chance, fate has brought the assassin and his target within 10 feet of each other.” “I find it hard to believe the sandwich would have featured on a Bosnian menu as early as 1914.” “No, the problem is that the story is suspiciously neat - and that the sandwich is a quintessentially Anglo-American convenience food.”
“That’s not because the modern version isn’t broadly faithful to the facts it’s not even utterly implausible that Princip might have stopped for a bite to eat.” However, while it’s a good tale, he said there are a few holes in the story. No shooting, no war,” Mike Dash summed it up succinctly for the Smithsonian magazine.ĭash said as far as he can tell, the theory first began circulating in 2003, and has been gaining more and more traction ever since. They suggest if he hadn’t stopped to snack where he did, he would never have been in the right place to shoot Ferdinand. Historians believe the Archduke’s killer, 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip, stopped for lunch before committing the fateful deed outside a delicatessen called Schiller’s. Now a new theory suggests a humble sandwich was to blame for the whole lot.
It set the crumbling Austrian-Hungarian Empire on a collision course with Serbia, dragging Europe into World War I, which in turn led to World War II. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, was the flashpoint that started a catastrophic chain of events.
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