Editing Gavrilo Princip (section)

== Legacy ==
[[File:Свјетлопис споменика србског осветника, јунака и мученика Гаврила Принципа у Биограду.jpg|thumb|Princip's bronze statue in Belgrade|upright=.7]]
Long after his death, Princip's legacy is still disputed, and he remains a historically significant but polarising figure. For the [[Habsburg monarchy]] and its supporters, he was a murderous [[Terrorism|terrorist]]; the [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]] portrayed him as a Yugoslav hero; during [[World War II]], [[Nazi Germany|Nazis]] and Croatian fascist [[Ustaše]] viewed him as a degenerate criminal and a left-wing anarchist; and for [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|socialist Yugoslavia]], he represented a youthful hero of armed resistance, a [[freedom fighter]] who fought to liberate all the peoples of Yugoslavia from Imperial rule, fighting for the workers and the oppressed.{{sfn | MacDowall | 2014}} In 1920 Princip and the other conspirators were exhumed and brought to Sarajevo, where they were buried together beneath the [[Vidovdan Heroes Chapel]].<ref name="SOME THINGS">{{cite web |date=29 June 2014 |title=GAVRILO PRINCIP – SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE |url=http://meettheslavs.com/gavrilo-princip-things-never-change/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161226184445/http://meettheslavs.com/gavrilo-princip-things-never-change/ |archive-date=26 December 2016 |access-date=26 December 2016 |publisher=Meet the Slavs}}</ref> In the 1990s, Princip started to be seen by some as a Serbian nationalist acting for the creation of a [[Greater Serbia]].{{sfn|''Institute for War and Peace Reporting''|2014}} Political movements and regimes have either praised or demonized him to promote their ideology.{{sfn|''Institute for War and Peace Reporting''|2014}}

Today he is still celebrated as a hero by numerous Serbs and regarded as a terrorist by many [[Croats]] and [[Bosniaks]].{{sfn|''Institute for War and Peace Reporting''|2014}}{{sfn | Dzidic | Ristic | Domanovic | Ivanovic | 2014}} [[Asim Sarajlić]], a senior MP of the Bosniak nationalist [[Party of Democratic Action]], stated in 2014 that Princip brought an end to "a golden era of history under Austrian rule" and that "we are strongly against the mythology of Princip as a fighter of freedom".{{sfn | MacDowall | 2014}} Many of Bosnia's Serbs continue to venerate his memory: Nenad Samardžija, the Serb governor of [[East Sarajevo]], said in 2014 that "we once all lived in one state (Yugoslavia), and we never looked on it as any kind of terrorist act" but "a movement of young people who wanted to liberate themselves from colonial slavery".{{sfn | Robinson | Sito-Sucic | 2014}}

=== Memorials and commemoration ===
[[File:Kapela Vidovdanskih heroja.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Vidovdan Heroes Chapel]] at the Holy Archangels Cemetery outside Sarajevo where Princip was buried in 1920 along with his co-conspirators]]
The house where Princip lived in Sarajevo was destroyed during World War I. After the war, it was rebuilt as a museum in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia was conquered by Germany in 1941 and Sarajevo became part of the Independent State of Croatia. The Croatian Ustaše destroyed the house again. After the establishment of Communist Yugoslavia in 1944, the house was rebuilt, became a museum again, and there was another museum dedicated to him within the city of Sarajevo.<ref name="SOME THINGS" /> During the [[Yugoslav Wars]] of the 1990s, the house was destroyed again and then rebuilt for the third time in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.atvbl.rs/rodna-kuca-gavrila-principa-obnovljena-zaboravljena |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510042040/http://www.atvbl.com/rodna-kuca-gavrila-principa-obnovljena-zaboravljena/ |url-status=dead |title=Rodna kuća Gavrila Principa: Obnovljena i zaboravljena |archive-date=10 May 2017 |website=www.atvbl.rs}}</ref>

Princip's pistol was confiscated by the authorities and eventually given, along with the Archduke's blood-stained undershirt, to {{ill|Anton Puntigam|de|Anton Puntigam}}, a Jesuit priest who was a close friend of the Archduke and had given the Archduke and his wife their last rites. The pistol and shirt remained in the possession of the Austrian Jesuits until they were offered on long-term loan to the [[Museum of Military History, Vienna|Museum of Military History]] in Vienna in 2004. It is now part of the permanent exhibition there.{{sfn | Foy|2004}} During the Yugoslavian era, [[Latin Bridge]], the site of the assassination, was renamed ''Princip's Bridge'' in remembrance; it reverted to its old name {{lang|bs|Latinska Cuprija}} in 1992.<ref>{{cite web |author=Slobodan G. Markovich |title=Anglo-American Views of Gavrilo Princip |url=http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-7653/2015/0350-76531546273M.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171203052117/http://doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-7653/2015/0350-76531546273M.pdf |archive-date=3 December 2017 |work=Balcanica XLVI (2015) |page=298 |via=Institute for Balkan Studies}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Maja Slijepčević |date=October 2016 |title=From the Monument of Assassination Towards Gavrilo Princip's Monuments |url=http://etnologija.etnoinfolab.org/dokumenti/72/2/2016/Heritage_splet_2934.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200527213707/https://etnologija.etnoinfolab.org/dokumenti/72/2/2016/Heritage_splet_2934.pdf |archive-date=27 May 2020 |work=Heritage of the First World War: Representations and Reinterpretations (International Symposium) |page=71 |via=University of Ljubljana}}</ref> In Sarajevo about a half-dozen memorials to Gavrilo Princip have been erected on the site and torn down with each change in power.{{sfn|''NPR.org''|2014}}

In 1917, a pillar was constructed at the corner of where the assassination took place. It was destroyed the following year. In 1941, the 1930 plaque commemorating Princip was removed by the local Germans when the German Army invaded.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sarajevo 1941: a birthday present for Adolf Hitler |url=https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/2020601/https___1914_1918_europeana_eu_contributions_21188 |access-date=2022-07-18 |website=www.europeana.eu |language=en-GB |archive-date=18 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220718011604/https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/2020601/https___1914_1918_europeana_eu_contributions_21188 |url-status=live }}</ref> It was presented to [[Adolf Hitler]] as a birthday gift<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-10-30 |title=Srećan rođendan, gospodine Hitler – Priča o jednoj fotografiji – Nedeljnik Vreme |url=https://www.vreme.com/kultura/srecan-rodjendan-gospodine-hitler/ |access-date=2022-07-18 |website=www.vreme.com |language=sr-RS |archive-date=18 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220718010101/https://www.vreme.com/kultura/srecan-rodjendan-gospodine-hitler/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and kept in a museum, only to be lost after 1945. After World War II, a new plaque went up which claimed that "Gavrilo Princip threw off the German occupiers". During the [[Bosnian War]], embossed footprints marking where Princip fired the fatal shots were torn out.{{sfn | ''NPR.org2'' | 2014}}
[[File:Location of Sarajevo Assassination 賽拉耶佛暗殺處 - panoramio.jpg|thumb|Plaque marking the assassination site]]
As the centenary of the assassination neared, an [[Apoliticism|apolitical]] plaque was put up at the corner where the assassination took place, which states: "From this place on 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip assassinated the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sofia."{{sfn | ''NPR.org'' | 2014}}<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.ft.com/content/293938b2-afcd-11e3-9cd1-00144feab7de |title=Sarajevo: the crossroads of history |last=Kuper |first=Simon |date=21 March 2014 |website=Financial Times |language=en-GB |access-date=8 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190918081829/https://www.ft.com/content/293938b2-afcd-11e3-9cd1-00144feab7de |archive-date=18 September 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> On 21 April 2014, a bust of Princip was unveiled in [[Tovariševo]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Da Se Ne Zaboravi: Meštani Tovariševa sami podigli spomenik Principu! |trans-title=Not Forgetting: villagers themselves erected a monument to Princip! |newspaper=Telegraf |url=http://www.telegraf.rs/vesti/1039860-se-ne-zaboravi-mestani-tovariseva-sami-podigli-spomenik-principu |access-date=28 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924130914/http://www.telegraf.rs/vesti/1039860-se-ne-zaboravi-mestani-tovariseva-sami-podigli-spomenik-principu |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> and on the centenary itself, a statue was erected in East Sarajevo.<ref>[http://www.b92.net/eng/news/region.php?yyyy=2014&mm=06&dd=27&nav_id=90812 Monument to Gavrilo Princip unveiled in East Sarajevo] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150622132706/http://www.b92.net/eng/news/region.php?yyyy=2014&mm=06&dd=27&nav_id=90812 |date=22 June 2015 }}, B92, 27 June 2014 (retrieved 22 June 2015)</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-33048005 Serbia: Belgrade's monument to Franz Ferdinand assassin] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180303025410/http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-33048005 |date=3 March 2018 }}, [[BBC News]], 8 June 2015 (retrieved 22 June 2015)</ref> A year later, a statue of Princip was unveiled in Belgrade by the President of Serbia [[Tomislav Nikolić]] and the President of [[Republika Srpska]] [[Milorad Dodik]], as a gift from Republika Srpska to Serbia.<ref name="B92-1009490">{{cite news |title=''Ne dozvoljavam vređanje poklanih Srba'' |trans-title=I do not allow insults to slaughtered Serbs |newspaper=B92 |date=28 June 2015 |url=http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2015&mm=06&dd=28&nav_category=11&nav_id=1009490 |access-date=28 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629212820/http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2015&mm=06&dd=28&nav_category=11&nav_id=1009490 |archive-date=29 June 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> At the unveiling Nikolić gave a speech, saying in part: "Princip was a hero, a symbol of liberation ideas, tyrant-killer, idea-holder of liberation from slavery, which spanned through Europe".<ref name="B92-1009490" />

On 11 November 2018, the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, Princess Anita of Hohenberg, the eldest great-grandchild of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and Branislav Princip, grandnephew of Gavrilo Princip, shook hands in a symbolic act of reconciliation in Graz, Austria.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rukovanje potomaka nadvojvode Ferdinanda i Gavrila Principa |trans-title=Handshake of descendants of Archduke Ferdinand and Gavril Princip |url=https://balkans.aljazeera.net/news/world/2018/11/11/rukovanje-potomaka-nadvojvode-ferdinanda-i-gavrila-principa |website=Al Jazeera |language=bs |date=11 November 2018 |access-date=12 April 2023 |archive-date=12 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412142429/https://balkans.aljazeera.net/amp/news/world/2018/11/11/rukovanje-potomaka-nadvojvode-ferdinanda-i-gavrila-principa |url-status=live }}</ref>