Postcard of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, showing Appel Quay and the Lateiner bridge at the intersection where Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophia were shot and killed by Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914. The card is field postmarked by a Landstrumm Infantry Regiment, with a message dated July 3, 1915.
Sarajewo - Appel Quai+ Ort, wo das Attentat vom 2[8] Juni 1914 verübt wurde.Sarajevo - Appel QuaySpot where the assassination was perpetrated on June 28, 1914.
"There is nothing to show the complicity of the Serbian Government in the directing of the assassination or its preparation or in the supplying of weapons. Nor is there anything to lead one even to conjecture such a thing. On the contrary there is evidence that would appear to show that such complicity is out of the question. . . .. . . Depositions of accused place it practically beyond doubt that the outrage was decided in Belgrade and prepared with the help of the Serbian railway officials Ciganović and Major Tankosić, by both of whom bombs, Brownings, ammunition and cyanide of potassium were procured."
To build his case for war, Austro-Hungarian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Berchtold sent Dr. Wiesner, a Legal Counsellor at the Foreign Office to Sarajevo on July 10, 1913 to report within 48 hours on the investigation into the assassination of the Archduke and his wife. Dr. Wiesner reported by telegram on July 13. While finding evidence the attack was planned in Belgrade, Serbia, he did not provide the solid case against the Serbian government that Berchtold and others arguing for war were looking for.
The Origins of the War of 1914, Volume Two: The Crisis of July 1914 from the Sarajevo outrage to the Austro-Hungarian general mobilization by Luigi Albertini, page 174, publisher: Oxford University Press, publication date: 1952
Major Tankosić, 1914-07-13, July, 1914, Sarajevo
