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The Black Hand was outlawed in Serbia in 1917, although its ideas continued to be influential after World War One and Two. An organization known as the White Hand was created and inspired by it. [21] In 1938, Konspiracija, a conspiracy group to overthrow the Yugoslav regency was founded by, among others, members of the Serbian Cultural Club ...
In 1911 he helped founding Ujedinjenje ili Smrt (Unification or Death), commonly known as the Black Hand, a conspiratorial network supporting the formation of a Greater Serbia state. Dimitrijević, who used the code name Apis, became the leader of the Black Hand. [6]
After Serbia's victory over Bulgaria in Macedonia in the Balkan Wars, the "Black Hand" became moribund because of the death of its president and the failure to replace him, an inactive secretary, casualties, broken links between its three-man cells, and a drying up of funding. [154]
Pages in category "Black Hand (Serbia)" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Additionally, the investigation brought to light the involvement of a clandestine Serbian organization, the Black Hand, which was headed by Dragutin Dimitrijević, the chief of Serbian military intelligence. Austro-Hungarian police suspected that the terrorists had benefited from the complicity of Serbian military personnel and border guards ...
Vojislav Tankosić (Serbian Cyrillic: Војислав Танкосић, 20 September 1880 – 2 November 1915) was a Serbian military officer, vojvoda of the Serbian Chetnik Organization, major of the Serbian Army, and member of the Black Hand, who participated in the May Coup and was accused of involvement in the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Velimir Vemić (Serbian Cyrillic: Велимир Вемић 1870 – after 1938) was a Serbian officer. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison at the Salonika trail in 1917 [1] for his participation in the Black Hand, [2] [3] [4] and his role in the assassination of King Aleksandar Obrenović and his wife Draga Mašin [5] and for firing the first shot.
Bogdan Radenković (Serbian Cyrillic: Богдан Раденковић; 1874 – 30 July 1917) was a Serb activist, an organizer of the Serbian Chetnik Organization and one of the founders of the Black Hand. [1] He was a leading civilian activist of the Pan-Serb movement in the early 20th century. [2]