This documentary explores how targeted criminal acts redefined history and justice. In 1914, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist linked to the ‘Black Hand’ triggered the fatal gears of the First World War. Decades later, in 1952, the Remer trial in Germany transformed the perception of resistance to Nazism. Attorney General Fritz Bauer secured the conviction of a former Nazi officer, proving legally that one cannot commit treason against an illegitimate state. From the spark of a global conflict to the birth of the right to resistance, these crimes toppled empires and forged the foundations of modern democracies.
1:00-10:58 – The Sarajevo Assassination
35:24- 44:55 – The assassination attempt on Hitler
