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Archive for July 2nd, 2007

Memory’s Change of Ownership

The museum’s vicissitudes reflect the city’s ambiguous and ever-changing relationship with its own past. In 1917 the Austro-Hungarians erected a giant monument at the assassination site. Nearly two years later it was ripped down by the new Yugoslav authorities—though strangely a large central medallion from the monument, bearing the image of Franz Ferdinand and his [...]

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