An diesem Tag vor 90 Jahren wurden König Alexander von Jugoslawien und Louis Barthou, Außenminister Frankreichs, in Marseille getötet.

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Von Porodicnostablo

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  1. Porodicnostablo on

    It was AFAIK the first assassination to be recorded on camera, but I could be wrong:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK0pI6bwjR4

    [The monument in Marseille](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Marseille%2C_Monument_comm%C3%A9moratif_au_roi_Alexandre_Ier_de_Yougoslavie_et_%C3%A0_Louis_Barthou_04.jpg).

    Alexander’s body arrives to the port of Split in Yugoslavia, the service held there, the procession in Belgrade, and the funeral in the royal mausoleum in Oplenac:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OG6rrk5s2U&t=160s

    More footage from Belgrade:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhq_XhHcy5g

    Aleksandar’s widowed wife, Queen Marija, his eldes son Petar (the new King), his cousin Prince Pavle (the new “Regent”), his uncle Prince Arsen, Prince Edward and others in the funeral procession:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/afki1x/funeral_of_king_alexander_of_yugoslavia_1934_his/

  2. Well….during his rule Croatian leader Stjepan Radic vas assassinated in the PARLIAMENT, he introduced royal dictatorship, supported idea of Greater Serbia (annexing something like 50% of Croatian land, parts of Albania, Romania, Bulgaria,Hungary…).

    Then he got assassinated and pikachu face

  3. If he stayed alive how much the history of Yugoslavia would have changed?

  4. dat_9600gt_user on

    Both of them being assassinated must’ve been a shock to Europe

  5. Aleksandar is one of the worst Serbian leaders in history, he shouldn’t have been king.

  6. WorldlinessRadiant77 on

    King Alexander basically made enemies everywhere he went. No surprise he was put down.

  7. Independent_Gene_464 on

    Yugoslavia should never have been attempted and the Serbian army should have let the Croatian lands go to anarchy as was the case after WWI. I know hindsight is 20/20, but it would have been much better had Serbia just kept its wins from WWI and absorbed the other Serbian regions into Serbia. This “union” thing was a mess from the start.

  8. I was born and raised in Marseille. I knew about this story and la Canebière is the famous street where they got killed.

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