The Assassination of Tsar Nicholas II

30th July 2012 30 mins Season 1 Episode 23

Yekaterinburg, 1918 After a disastrous war with Germany, the Bolsheviks imprisoned the Romanov family as their supporters approached. Factory worker guards were replaced by Cheka executioners and on 17th July 1918, the family were murdered and buried in a nearby wood. For more than 70 years their whereabouts was unknown but new material released from Russia now conclusively reveals their fate.

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The Assassination of King Alexander

Marseille, 1934 On 9th October 1934, just after King Alexander of Yugoslavia had arrived in the cruiser Dubrovnik for a State visit to France, a man later identified as Croatian nationalist Petros Kellerman jumped onto the running board of the King''s car and opened fire with a Mauser pistol at point blank range. In the confusion, the chauffeur was wounded by a Royal escort and the King accidentally bled to death in his car because his aides failed to apply a tourniquet

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