The photograph was sold worldwide as an image of the arrest of assassin Gavrilo Princip and contributed greatly in stirring up patriotic fervour that brought together allied nations into the First World War. It first appeared on the 5 July 1914 front cover of Austrian weekly newspaper . Several scholars believe that the person apprehended in the photograph is not Princip, but an innocent bystander named Ferdinand Behr, as it has been known since the 1930s. The image became an icon of the 20th century after being publicised as depicting Princip's arrest.
