This pistol fired the shots that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, igniting a chain of events that led to World War I. Now exhibited at the Vienna Museum of Military History, it is frequently cited as the object connected to a war that ultimately cost an estimated 8.5 million lives.

This pistol fired the shots that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, igniting a chain of events that led to World War I. Now exhibited at the Vienna Museum of Military History, it is frequently cited as the object connected to a war that ultimately cost an estimated 8.5 million lives.

This pistol fired the shots that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, igniting a chain of events that led to World War I. Now exhibited at the Vienna Museum of Military History, it is frequently cited as the object connected to a war that ultimately cost an estimated 8.5 million lives.


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