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Sometimes a single object tells the story of a person or an era. The dark-colored, open-top automobile standing in the hall of the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Museum of Military History) in Vienna is precisely such an object. This 1910 Gräf und Stift model is more than just an ordinary car; it is the silent witness to the event that ignited one of the bloodiest wars of the twentieth century. The vehicle in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife Sophie rode for the last