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Black Hand (Serbia) Unification or Death ( Serbian: Ujedinjenje ili smrt, Serbian Cyrillic: Уједињење или смрт ), popularly known as the Black Hand (Serbian: Crna ruka, Serbian Cyrillic: Црна рука ), was a secret military society formed in 1901 by officers in the Army of the Kingdom of Serbia. It gained a reputation for ...
Dragutin Dimitrijević. Black Hand, secret Serbian society of the early 20th century that used terrorist methods to promote the liberation of Serbs outside Serbia from Habsburg or Ottoman rule and was instrumental in planning the assassination of the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914), precipitating the outbreak of World War I.
Apr 23, 2017 · The Black Hand even targeted Mafiosi in New York and Chicago — not exactly easy pickings. Oftentimes a threatening letter and a coal-blackened handprint on a victim’s door did the trick.
May 29, 2023 · Anthony LaPaglia unravels an epic story of an Italian organised crime gang – the Black Hand – which terrorised Italian Australians working around the cane fi...
Jan 31, 2017 · By Dan Zinski. Published Jan 31, 2017. Leonardo DiCaprio will reportedly star as Joe Petrosino and produce the true-life period crime drama film, The Black Hand. Leonardo DiCaprio is no stranger to playing real-life characters, having brought such diverse individuals as J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jordan Belfort and Frank Abagnale Jr. to ...
