Mission Incompetent: The Black Hand Gang
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The Black Hand Gang worked together to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and thus trigger a chain of events that led to World War One, but did you know that their collaboration was almost unsuccessful, owing to how many mistakes they made? Here, we reveal how they achieved their aim almost by luck, rather than judgement.

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  • Comment posted by Millie, at 18:52 14 Dec 2019

    Isn't this awesome? I've just started studying WW1 at school and yesterday we had a lesson on this exact thing, and this has some extra facts I wasn't taught! Great because I'm writing a book about ww1 so this is an extra fact for me

  • Comment posted by User0868395511, at 19:18 22 Jun 2019

    STUPID weren't they

  • Comment posted by Cuddly Seal, at 15:39 21 Jun 2019

    I’m sorry but I showed this to my bestie. She laughed a lot with me 😂 lol
    Cuddly_Seal🧜🏼‍♀️

  • Comment posted by penguinlover1, at 12:01 15 Jun 2019

    My brother told me about this but he said it differently

  • Comment posted by LilacLollyFlower, at 17:57 14 Jun 2019

    ha ha! were they really that useless?

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