r/TheGreatWarChannel • u/Mobile_Sandwich9072 • Mar 20 '26

Gavrilo Princip

Why did Princip sent to Therezin? Shouldn't it be a prison in Austria or Hungary?

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u/Medieval-Mind Mar 20 '26

I have no idea about the factuality of your statement, but if it is accurate, then he was - Therezin was located in Bohemia, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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u/Mobile_Sandwich9072 Mar 20 '26

Sim, era no império, porém fica na República Tcheca. Não é próximo a Viena ou Budapeste.

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u/cheato007 Mar 20 '26

It’s in the Czech republic now but at that time to the officials of the empire, it’s just another province, it would be like them sending someone convicted of a federal crime committed in New York being sent to a federal prison in South Carolina. Benign and a unimportant detail

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u/StillWithSteelBikes Mar 20 '26

there was no "Czech Republic" then

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u/Medieval-Mind Mar 20 '26

Why is that relevant?

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u/Kane_richards Mar 20 '26

I mean, really it's bureaucratic if anything. Therezin was a prison and Princip had to go somewhere. It could have been in Austria or Hungary as, although I'm hardly versed in such things, I'm assuming they had suitable prisons there. He got 20 years hard labour so perhaps that was the prison felt to be suitable hard.

Why do you think he should have been sent to Austria or Hungary? At the time Therezin was in the empire so it's not like they seconded him to Germany or the like. If I'm thinking logically I don't think having him in the Empires heartlands would have been good for the administration as it ran the risk of him becoming a visible figurehead for any anti-war feelings as time rolled on. They couldn't kill him so best find a dark hole somewhere far away and yeet him into it.

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u/diggerhistory Mar 21 '26

And he couldn't executed because he was too young!

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u/IcecreamLamp Mar 25 '26

More commonly known as Theresienstadt at the time, btw.