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Subject: The Black Hand SS
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jlh1182 24.12.16 - 04:35am
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hand_(Serbia) * Unification or Death AKA The Black Hand Secret Society, was a secret military society formed on 9 May 1911 by officers in the Army of the Kingdom of Serbia, originating in the conspiracy group that assassinated the Serbian royal couple (1903), led by captain Dragutin Dimitrijevic 'Apis'. * +

jlh1182 24.12.16 - 04:40am
Through its connections to the June 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, which was committed by the members of youth movement Young Bosnia, the Black Hand is often viewed as having contributed to the start of World War I by precipitating the July Crisis of 1914, which eventually led to Austria-Hungary's invasion of the Kingdom of Serbia. * +

jlh1182 24.12.16 - 04:42am
Captain Apis personally led the group of Army officers who killed the royal couple in the Old Palace at Belgrade on the night of 28/29 May 1903.. * +

jlh1182 24.12.16 - 04:46am
Unification or Death was established in the beginning of May 1911, the original constitution of the organization being signed on 9 May. Ljuba Cupa, Bogdan Radenkovic and Vojislav Tankosic wrote the constitution of the organization. The constitution was modeled after similar German secret nationalist associations and the Italian Carbonari maffia. The organization was mentioned in the Serbian parliament as the 'Black Hand' in late 1911. * +

ogdenz 24.12.16 - 04:50am
Merry Christmas dude. * +

jlh1182 24.12.16 - 04:51am
By 1914, there were hundreds of members, many of whom were Serbian Army officers. The goal of uniting Serb- inhabited territories was implemented through training of guerilla fighters and saboteurs. The Black Hand was organized at the grassroots level in 3 to 5-member cells, supervised by district committees and by a Central committee in Belgrade whose ten-member Executive Committee was led, more or less, by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijevic 'Apis'. * +

jlh1182 24.12.16 - 04:52am
and a very merry christmas to you all.. * +

jlh1182 24.12.16 - 04:55am
To ensure secrecy, members rarely knew much more than the members of their own cell and one superior above them. New members swore the oath:... * +

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