The leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, as a gift for his birthday in 1941, received a memorial plaque to Gavrilo Princip, which was sent to him from occupied Sarajevo, a photograph testifies. Corpses should be buried, Hitler thinks, and this plaque, which celebrates freedom and German humiliation, is now a tombstone for their country and their dreams, according to the text of the newspaper “Vreme”.
The famous photograph shows the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, looking at the memorial plaque to Gavrilo Princip, which was sent to him from occupied Sarajevo.
The black and white photograph, which, according to Vreme, was taken by his official photographer Heinrich Hoffmann, shows Hitler and in front of him a memorial plaque with the inscription “On this historical place, Gavrilo Princip announced freedom on Vidovdan 15 (28) June 1914”.
Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Young Bosnia organization, assassinated Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo. That assassination served Austria-Hungary as an ultimatum to Serbia and an attack on it, which started the First World War.
It is claimed that the photograph was taken on Hitler’s birthday, April 20, 1941, in a carriage of the special train “Amerika”, which at that time was standing on a dead-end track of the Vienna-Graz railway, near the town of Mнихenkirchen.
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Hitler was then presented with a birthday gift, “the only war trophy of dismembered Yugoslavia”, a memorial plaque to Gavrilo Princip brought from occupied Sarajevo, according to the text by Muharem Bazdulj.
The Nazi army entered Sarajevo on April 17, 1941, and the removal of the plaque was recorded on camera.
“The Führer was happy that his army, from a part of the world that is not worth the bones of even a single Pomeranian grenadier, managed to bring him as a gift the only thing from that murdered country that means something to him: the plaque with which Sarajevo paid tribute to Gavrilo Princip,” the text in Vreme, written by Muharem Bazdulj, states.
“Corpses should be buried, Hitler thinks, and this plaque, which they erected to celebrate their freedom and German humiliation, is now a tombstone for their country and their dreams,” Bazdulj writes.
Hoffmann took more than two million photographs of Hitler, and these photographs reflect the Second World War from the perspective of the German Nazi leader.
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Source: RTS, Photo: Hajnrih Hofman, Bildarhiv