Every student of history knows that the event which sparked-off
World War I, was the assassination of the Austrian Arch-Duke Francis
Ferdinand at Sarajevo in 1914.
What very few know is that the conspiracy to murder the Arch-Duke
was a Masonic Plot.
It is almost never mentioned in standard history texts, yet it is
non the less a known fact that the members of the group of conspirators
that carried out the assassination were masons, and it was revealed in
sworn testimony at their trial, " that the Freemasons had condemned
Francis Ferdinand to death ".