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@death-istic9586

2 ай бұрын

Hi.

@hazchemel

2 ай бұрын

With respect, I don't appreciate this video, and rather wish the subject were treated with more respect. Here, I mean The Subject and not KW2 as such, who is in the subject's seat on this occasion and therefore is viewed with exasperation and outrage, and from the year 2024. From 2024, KW2's opposition to democracy or whatever might be shocking etc, but you are the contemporary of over a century of politics without a monarchy. From KW2, that was yesterday, last week, last month etc. Germany had been monarchical since after the Roman Empire. This is just an example of the very many strange perspectives that arise from projecting a 2024 palette of mores upon the subject, whatever or whomever that may be. Writing like this to you, a bright young historian, is painful and no doubt the reading also, and for that, I'm sorry. May you go well.

@AMD7027

2 ай бұрын

One quibble, the way you present it he just “crossed the border” I believe that the Dutch government had him cool his heels at the border for two days before they decided to let him cross. They needed to consider their position via a vis the coming change in Europe

@olgagaming5544

Ай бұрын

Hey, you should do a video about Polish-Austrian war from the Napoleonic period. Its the only war won by Poland in that century and its a pretty niche, interesting topic xD

@billolsen4360

Ай бұрын

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"it's impossible to answer the question whether Wilhelm had any chance of gaining the throne" My 70 day focus says otherwise

@KimFareseed

2 ай бұрын

The AI controled Netherlands would need to alow him to leave. It can deny your request.

@gottwyCZ

2 ай бұрын

​@@KimFareseedit only does it when you don't have an army.

@pietervanderzwaan4295

2 ай бұрын

​@@KimFareseedlong live the kaiserin

When you realize that Wilhelm II lived to see Germany defeat France and then just died, his last memories were probably of a restored German Empire.

@owenvanmaaren4505

2 ай бұрын

No, he hated national socialism

@dragoe7441

2 ай бұрын

Restored german prestige*

@Emel_unlegit

2 ай бұрын

​@@owenvanmaaren4505suure he did, only problem was him being an anti semite and hating the Weimar republic

@404_nowheresnotfound3

2 ай бұрын

@@Emel_unlegitHe didn’t like the Nazis because they would have made him “quietly disappear” like the rest of the monarchist and any other political opponent in Germany.

@SamBrickell

2 ай бұрын

He was like a gambler, he knew how to walk away a winner.

Just chilling and cutting wood

@boomblam5738

2 ай бұрын

Raving about Jews and Masons to anyone who'd listen.

@Alfred_Leonhart

2 ай бұрын

@@boomblam5738this all sounds like my uncle

@DrGrove

2 ай бұрын

@@boomblam5738 He never had the makings of a varsity Emperor

@SirManateee

2 ай бұрын

Just having a good time

@hazchemel

2 ай бұрын

Its a good pastime, besides making firewood.

Interesting unmentioned bit is that Dutch Queen Wilhelmina had plotted behind the scenes to get Wilhelm II into the Netherlands, despite publically ignoring him. He supposedly ''just showed'' up at the border. New research however showed it was all planned and made sense because Wilhelmina thought of Wilhelm as a dear uncle. Even before the end of the war in summer 1918 she tried to organize 'Verständigungsfrieden', a comprimise peace to help out Germany.

@drxtale9446

Ай бұрын

That’s… weirdly sweet of you clean out all the chaos and politics and stuff.

Comment before watching: this is a video about woodworking isn’t it?

@t.wcharles2171

2 ай бұрын

You wouldn't be far off.

@abecerra81000

2 ай бұрын

Incorrect by the thumbnail you can determine this is a tier list video regarding mustache wax

@Dinonaut

Ай бұрын

After watching the video for less than 1 second, I can accurately determine the video is about welding.

Kaiser Wilhelm II is the Konig of villain maxxing. virtually every photo of him he could pull of some insane villain look. From when he was young and with a beard, to moustache to beard again in old age, he seems ready for Mr. Bond's shenanigans.

@onurbschrednei4569

2 ай бұрын

to be fair, a lot of Bond villains were styled on old-school German aristocrats, so its more the other way around.

@404_nowheresnotfound3

2 ай бұрын

I think it’s more so that we associate German things with evil due to all the propaganda, and the whole fact that we murdered each other a lot.

@Patrickballhater

2 ай бұрын

​@onurbschrednei4569 I thought they were more based on Nazis. But obviously, there's some overlap.

@am1sane

2 ай бұрын

this is how 70% Germans looks like

@dagmarvandoren9364

Ай бұрын

Mean spirited. You

“I’d rather be shot in Holland than flew to England. I have no desire to be photographed with Churchill” Has to be one of the coldest and most German quotes I’ve ever heard a person speak.

@casssmith2610

Ай бұрын

I was married to one, my real last name is Kaiser. Sounds like my ex and his father and grandfather. I’m not a fan.

The way Wilhelm went from being the most famous guy in the world at the start of the war to an overnight footnote before the armistice has always fascinated me.

@dagmarvandoren9364

Ай бұрын

Stay facinated...

I convinced my friend and I to visit Huis Doorn when we were in the Netherlands in 2022. We both really enjoyed it, even though she didn't know a thing about the Kaiser. We figured we'd just stroll around ourselves, as all the electronic guides were in Dutch or German (we're American). However, when we were upstairs, I saw one of the employees running to find us; it turns out they had English guides and wanted to make sure we were able to enjoy them! Even though it was Autumn, the grounds are very peaceful and quiet. There's also a lovely café where we were able to enjoy a some hot drinks afterwards. It's worth mentioning we were staying in Amsterdam and we able to take public transportation all the way there and back. I highly recommend it if you're interested in the Kaiser.

Wilhelm is like that one mysterious neighbor in your neighborhood who lives in the biggest house in the neighborhood and has a mysterious past that nobody’s exactly sure what it was

Guy was not a great dude but I’ll always respect his final act of not allowing Hitler to use his death as a tool for propaganda.

@DarthDread-oh2ne

2 ай бұрын

I’ll take him over Woodrow Wilson.

@TheMasonK

2 ай бұрын

@@DarthDread-oh2ne yeah I’d rather have neither lol

@dragoe7441

2 ай бұрын

​@@DarthDread-oh2nefr

@dragoe7441

2 ай бұрын

Great domestic leader But the german Empire had some of the most garbage diplomacy if any modern nation

@vetarlittorf1807

2 ай бұрын

He was a great guy though. You should read the works of Christina Croft.

It is really great to make videos in English. I am really interested in German History and as a French not speaking German, you are for me the only channel covering this topic that I can understand.

@adrien3019

2 ай бұрын

Je pensais être le seul français sur cette chaîne !

@wsfetdyrrli-uytrdjyytfdu-fh2ne

2 ай бұрын

Je le pensais aussi 😅

@Chrysobubulle

2 ай бұрын

Ne croyez jamais les mensonges des anglo-saxons. Ils présenteront toujours leurs cousins germaniques sous une lumière favorable. Guillaume II était un connard qui a eu exactement ce qu’il méritait

I went to Huis Doorn last year (2023) as I’d always wanted to see where the last German Monarch lived for some reason. The castle is quaint for a monarch, fitting really. Unless you are a Dutch or German speaker I wouldn’t recommend it so much as I couldn’t get a tour in English, so I hung on to a Dutch one (which I understand relatively well). I was the youngest person there, they seemed surprised someone like me would visit. Seems a lot of German Monarchists attend but not much otherwise. Worth a look but not essential

@hedgehog3180

2 ай бұрын

I didn't know there were still German monarchists around but I guess that's what reichsburgers are?

@Medvelelet

2 ай бұрын

​​@@hedgehog3180Good God, no! They are clowns. There are more valid monarchist groups in germany, such as Tradition und Leben. They can't become a political party because monarchist parties are banned from running on elections.

@towgod7985

Ай бұрын

Thank you for your information. I would have liked to see the place, English is my only language.

Something you didn't mention is he specifically requested that no nazi symbols were to be displayed(so much for that). He, in fact, despised the Nazis, and also despised the Kristelnacht, and even was ashamed of his son who was an avid nazi(as mentioned)

@lesteraponte5734

2 ай бұрын

He was fine with Hitler until he realized he was out for himself and would not help restore the monarchy.

My father told me that my grandfathers grandfather was one of kaiser wilhelms bodyguards when he was in exile in huis doorn. Sadly i've never been able to find out anything about him.

@dagmarvandoren9364

Ай бұрын

Love our kaiser...regardless of endless brit. Propagand. W hich i saw postcards of.....

This is what I was waiting for!!! Wilhelm builds a massive gate entryway but no addition to the house to properly store all of his stuff. Since Wilson was brought up could there be an episode that discusses the DAWES Plan and the French Occupation of the Ruhr and Saar?

@SirManateee

2 ай бұрын

French oppucation of the Rhineland is definitely a topic that will be covered soon

@Luxnutz1

2 ай бұрын

@@SirManateee YOU ARE THE BEST THERE EVER WAS!!!!! The most hidden topic. Hearing Sir Manatees facts on that period will be having it a dozen times. Will Manatee Discuss the Valhalla Memorial on the Danube and the People recognised in the memorial and their accomplishments?

Cool place. I visited there in early March 2020 right before lockdown. I got to see the inside of the house. I learned they don’t get a lot of Americans visitors thus the lack of English speaking tour guides. I muddled thru with a half German and half English tour. Still worth the effort.

I was watching one of your videos and this was uploaded by the time i finished. Beautiful.

Netherlands mentioned!

@CatarigMaTt

2 ай бұрын

🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱

@gregoryturk1275

2 ай бұрын

Dutch Proisen

@gregoryturk1275

2 ай бұрын

What if The Anglo-Japan alliance happened and war plan red happen

Attempt 3 of asking for more videos about german minorities in Poland during the interwar era

@sanngrita

2 ай бұрын

I wonder why he ignores it😳😳😳

@SirManateee

2 ай бұрын

It will come, I promise. My life is just very busy at the moment and I would rather make this video when I will have plenty of time to cover such a vast topic :D

@sanngrita

2 ай бұрын

@@SirManateee Lithuanian topic too!!!!!

@SomtimesHeron

2 ай бұрын

I am interested in this too. I'm nightly confused about Prussia and Poland having visited the later numerous times.

Excellent content. Precise and informative with a sense of the historic panorama.

Amazing channel. You deserve so much more subs.

Very well researched.

Leave it to the Kaiserboos to resurrect and keep his image alive as an enthusiastic German patriot, which comes from a mod for a map game where his dream of winning WW1 and seeing Russia and the West burn in chaos achieved. What I personally don't like about modern depictions of Wilhelm II and Kaiserreich is that they are portrayed as some sort of proto-Hitler and proto-Nazi Germany, which by any means, they weren't. The Kaiserreich was the first ever unified German State in a thousand years, which, while having a prideful ethnic population, they weren't racists who would gas 6 million people. Wilhelm is portrayed as a dictator who liked to abuse his power. In reality, he was an autocrat with the mentality of autocrats at that time. I can't really blame him for his personality. He was raised to be the German Emperor and King of Prussia, an inheritor to a great and prideful legacy, which couldn't let him accept that he broke it. His personal insecurities (the hand problem especially) turned him into a war-happy figure, egar to prove his masculinity as he represented the legacy Frederick the Great and wider Prussian tradition at that time.

@Argacyan

2 ай бұрын

The portrayal of the proto-nazis has a lot to do with post-WW2 governments & people trying to distance themselves. Finding a way to rationalize the nazis that doesn't immediately call into question other countries' own acts & actions, their own nazi movements or war crimes there or against the native populations of colonial empires. It's why I don't like seeing "Kaiser" or "Kaiserreich" used in English, as if it meant anything but "emperor" and "empire" - which is also a function of exceptionalizing Germany away from other empires at that time, albeit this linguistic quirk is employed both in a negative way and also by nationalists in a positive manner. Much like say "American exceptionalism" attempting to separate US nationalism from other kinds of nationalism.

@iGamezRo

2 ай бұрын

@Argacyan The words "Kaiser", "Kaiserreich" and "Weltkrieg" have been made more publicised today because of the mentioned mod for a certain map game. If you see a historical discussion about Austria, people won't use the words "Kaiserreich" and "Kaiser". The German words for "Empire" and "Emperor" in English have become synonymous to "the German Empire" and the title of "German Emperor".

@thelvadam2884

2 ай бұрын

The mods lore doesn't depict the Kaiserreich as Proto 3 Reich tho. It is becoming More democratic yet still a monarchy. And it turns more into a world police due to being the only Super power left, kinda like USA in our timeline

@giulianopisciottano8302

2 ай бұрын

​@@iGamezRowell to be honest I do use kaiser for the emperor of Austria, although I still call them Austria Hungary or at best österreich ( I'm not german)

@onurbschrednei4569

2 ай бұрын

@@iGamezRo Noo, the term "Kaiser" in English has been the preferred word to describe the German emperor for a VERY long time, it certainly didn't appear because of some video game. People talked about "the Kaiser" already in the 1890s. For example, in the book the Great Gatsby (1920s) there's a rumor that Gatsby is "related to the Kaiser".

Sir Manatee, I like your precise style of delivery! This forgotten chapter of German history is worth remembering.

Great video! I know this would be a bit less inside the scope of this channels repertoire on focusing on history but it would be cool to get your opinion on the world of Kaiserreich. A hearts of iron 4 Mod that is about if Germany had won WW1. Very interesting alt history stuff, especially with Germany imo! Keep up the great work :)

@SirManateee

2 ай бұрын

I've heard of this mod, but I don't play Hoi4 so I probably won't be able to contribute much

SirManatee uploads, I click on the spot Nice content as always

Actually some members of the Hohenzollern family were opposed of the Nazis, like Prince Louis Ferdinand, the second son of Crown Prince Willhelm.

@lesteraponte5734

2 ай бұрын

Some were not.

@karlkarlos3545

2 ай бұрын

@@lesteraponte5734But he said none of them, hence my correction.

The situation in Germany in 1918 was so similar to the one in Russia in 1917 that Wilhelm should have been more thankful that he had competent subordinates that were willing to tell him the game was up, and that the army refused to follow his plans to start a civil war. Wilhelm's life might have been saved by the fact that no one wanted a civil war like the one that was raging in Russia at the time because I have a hard time seeing how Wilhelm could get out of such a civil war with his head on his shoulders.

I visited Doorn in 2023. There was an old cars and carriages exhibition in the grounds also on that day. Quite a trip in history.

Your videos are just beautiful, I don’t understand how you only have 23.600k viewers.

I've found that the easiest way to explain Wilhelm Hohenzollern is to think of him like the Donald Trump of his age.

Vielen Dank from the land of Manatees here in FL, USA.

The photograph showing the Kaiser feeding the ducks shows you what a perfectly normal person he was

4:04 Is the Kaiser in Bulgarian Feldmarschall uniform?

@starkillerdude1914

2 ай бұрын

He wore it during a visit to the Tsar of Bulgaria. It was quite common for him to wear the visiting countries' uniform, it was also common for the host king to wear a German uniform. He the host nations uniform visiting The UK, Austro Hungary, Russia and even The Ottoman Empire where he wore a fez and turkish dress.

7:46 A Prussian gentleman never chops wood in anything less than a full three-piece suit.

Have you considered making a video about the göttinger sieben?

Very excellent 👏

I JUST started watching The Exception last night. Stop stalking me :(

@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts

2 ай бұрын

no

That map with the angry animals is fabulous!

Very interesting ! What pompous old windbag he really was .

Good idea

@Steam1937

2 ай бұрын

Also first

Is there any weight behind the argument that Kaiser Wilhelm had changed strategy and attempted to have Crown Prince Wilhelm regain the thrown instead?

His house is still standing. It is pretty nice and we use the property for events. I live close to his dutch house

Oh man I would have needed this video an hour ago when I wrote a history exam with questions that could be awnsered with content in this video

@SirManateee

2 ай бұрын

Sorry :c I was going to upload it yesterday but there were some complications

He wasn't to be trusted -- says he'll flee to Holland; ends up in Utrecht.

@SirManateee

2 ай бұрын

Yeah in Germany "Holland" is usually just a synonym for the Netherlands

@greenefieldmann3014

2 ай бұрын

@@SirManateee In Germany, "Holland" is occasionally a synonym for Germany.

@HauntedXXXPancake

2 ай бұрын

@@greenefieldmann3014 Maaaaybe centuries ago, but no German alive today would do that.

@RKNGL

2 ай бұрын

So this is why Midwest US people say Holland is the Netherlands as well, lots of 🇩🇪 decent here.

I’m a simple man. I see Christopher Clark referenced, I like

From Kaiser to royal tree trimmer and lumber jack.

Albert Ballin is a real one

I mean, he’s pretty good at throwing wood (if you seen footage of his exile you’ll know)

This man probably could have prevented WW2 by either preventing WW1 or by winning it. Instead he’s the reason for everything bad that happened in the 20th century from the rise of socialism (including the national variety) to the Cold War. Thanks, Wilhelm.

Blaming everyone for his own mistakes, my grandmother learned it from him probably 😂

@SirManateee

2 ай бұрын

Very useful skill in life

4:58 it was a mutiny

Tbh, all major European powers of the time share a pretty much equal part in why WW1 broke out. To solely blame Germany is disingenuous and far from representative of the reality.

He died just days before the invasion of Soviet Russia. Had he lived, he would have taken credit for the initial victories of that campaign as well. Curious what his reaction to the catastrophic defeat of the german army at Stalingrad would have been. How many of the high ranking german officers that surrendered to the Russians were trained under his command.

Didint Hitler call him a "Idiot" When he got a letter from him asking If Hitler would allow him to be in charge of the country LoL

Some different input for inbetween

To be fair the deck was stacked against him from day 1 but at the very least he did not order the poisoning of his own people liqueurs,

And imagine that he was the grandson of Queen Victoria-related by blood to the British Royal family

Just because he didnt put into place anti semitic decrees doesnt mean he wasnt an anti semite. He just wasnt a hitler level of anti semite.

@michakoniecpolski5677

2 ай бұрын

So he was still a little based

@applecake122

Ай бұрын

The reasons for his anti-Semitism were mainly that there were some Jews among the leaders of the Russian Revolution and the Soviet republics of Hungary and Bavaria.

Wilhelm II was the most unfornate of the Europe's monarchs (safe for the Russian ones of course). He was, in all honesty, a manchild that inherited a massive empire and had to watch it crumble.

@hedgehog3180

2 ай бұрын

He had that in common with Nicholas, well they are related after all.

@Curlyblonde

Ай бұрын

At that point in time, most of the Royal Heads of State in Europe were all related to one another from cousin-marriages throughout history. Also further reinforced with Queen Victoria's children and grandchildren being dispersed into all the Royal Houses as they were married off. Kaiser Wilhem became more irritible, argumentative and difficult to get along with as he grew older. Essentially with WWI, it became a huge family fight that cost massive destruction and loss of life. No coincidence that many European Royal Heads of State were dethroned and exiled after WWI ended to avoid this situation from getting out of hand again. Those monarchs that remained as ceremonial Heads of State gave up much of their political and legislative powers.

This was truly a mentally feeble man, to be honest. The reason why you can draw all sorts of conclusions using quotes of his (pro-Nazi, anti-Nazi, anti-Semite, repelled by anti-Jewis pogroms) is because this is a man who flipped back and fourth and was as inconstant as Alexander I of Russia, but with far more destructive results! A man who was as crippled by his own sense of inadequacies as his arm was physically,

I'm not sure as a monarch. But Kaiser made good sandwich rolls.😊

Chop wood repeat

Great video.

Well at least he died thinking that Germany had just grabbed the biggest W in world history

A shame he ought to sent to La Haye ,to be judge for cryme against humanity ,and his son !!!

Fun fact : Wilhelm stated that he did not want to buried in Germany unless its monarchy was restored, which is why the N@zis buried him in his residence Currently monarchism in Germany is pretty low so his body wont be reburied anytime soon.

From the sounds of it, Wilhelm largely lived a charmed life in exile. He has a spacious house, a lot of money, an art collection and lived in luxury. Also, he was such a narcissist.

@vetarlittorf1807

2 ай бұрын

He was not a narcissist.

@hedgehog3180

2 ай бұрын

@@vetarlittorf1807 lol sure.

You are lovely.

Schhhnurrrbart!

Nothing absolves a monarch from guilt as blaming everyone else and acknowledging no faults whatsoever, right? 🤦‍♂

Another fanatical woodchopper-statesman was William Ewart Gladstone. What this says about their psychology, I leave to the experts.

@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts

2 ай бұрын

There's a great book called Norwegian wood about wood chopping in Norway which has a section about the psychology of chopping.

That he so completely managed to escape justice, and even got rewarded by the REPUBLIC with all the zing is really kinda disgusting

@palastofhistory4026

2 ай бұрын

WW1 wasn't his fault tough Before WW1 he was known as the peace kaiser and he did Infact try to prevent ww1 from happening and he even tried to make peace in 1916 but Germany's enemies declined his peace offer kaiser wilhelm II was even nominated twice for the Nobel peace prize in 1917 and once in 1911.

Wish this video would have included the topic of Wilhelm's friendship with Houston Stewart Chamberlain. Particularly given its relevance to Wilhelm's connections with antisemitism and to some of the extreme german nationalism and racial ideology of the 1910s and 1920s.

Thank you for acknowledging that he definitely was in the Position to stop world war won. I'd even go so far of all the people in the world he has had the best chance. A lot of people like to idolize the Empire and the Emporer himself since they (obviously) weren't as morally devastated as what came after but I think that's really just wrong. Wilhelm was a manic autocrat and I'm really glad that his family doesn't rule Germany.

@timemeddler7730

2 ай бұрын

He was the only one the tried to stop it and remember france declared war on us first.

@derdude6214

2 ай бұрын

@@timemeddler7730 "on us" that's funny and no they didn't. "We" declared war on Russia and the high command anticipated a declaration of war from France so to not lose the momentum they didn't wait and declared war on France as well and threatened Belgium to invade if they wouldn't allow for safe passage of the Army, wich the Belgian refused. So when the German Army invaded Belgium Britain's stood by it's obligation to preserve Belgiums independence and declared war on Germany. If Wilhelm would have wanted all of this to stop he would've had many chances to do so, he was the German Emporer, head of state and head of army at this point. He was the German state and he did nothing.

Haven’t watched yet but great video

@travissutherland8502

2 ай бұрын

Just watched. Great video.

Clark arguing the Kaiser wasn't a committed antisemite, but merely blamed Jews for all his woes is baffling because that is what antisemitism is. Clark often "nuances" his way into saying nothing of substance.

@michakoniecpolski5677

2 ай бұрын

Based Wilhelm, go to see your tunnels

@timemeddler7730

2 ай бұрын

He wasnt an anti semite and if you'd properly looked in the things he did when he was in power and ignored the things he wrote as an old depressed man missing the context u'd know that.

@angelikaskoroszyn8495

2 ай бұрын

@timemeddler7730 There're couple things worth noting here. People change. Maybe he became more antisemitic as he aged. Maybe he fell for antisemitic conspiracy theories when he felt like he was no longer in control over his life Either way saying he was not an antisemite because he was blaming Jewish people for everything bad that has ever happened only as an old man is kinda strange take

Just Another Entente-Influenced Misconception of The Kaiser nothing Else pretty much

What a chad God bless his soul

@sAimen_assi

2 ай бұрын

How come lol

After reading The Nazis and the Hohenzollern, Iam of the opinion that the Hohenzollern claim to old castles art etc is so laughable

@timemeddler7730

2 ай бұрын

Haste wohl zu viel Böhmermann gesehen.

@palastofhistory4026

2 ай бұрын

Stephan Malinowski and his books are biased af tough That man is openly anti monarchy and anti hohenzollern lol

I think it’s a stretch to suggest the old Kaiser could have stopped the rise of the Nazis and World War II. Otherwise, good video.

@timemeddler7730

2 ай бұрын

He wouldnt have made Hitler chancellor thats for sure

I like hamburgers

He was such a pro gamer, after committing war crimes while leading a whole ahh empire he goes and finances ultra nationalistic groups

I know it's weird to say but this former Kaiser looks like he's my brother. It's weird how similar I look to him. I'm of south german and mixed prussian and polish ancestry so I guess it makes sense somewhat

Umm, actually HE did start the First World War!

Its always so depressing to talk about 1918 and the German Revolution, knowing what a tragedy it developed into after it was betrayed and sold out to the reactionaries by the men ostensibly chosen and trusted to lead it.

Trouble understanding your accent with the music playing too.

he should have been sent to prison!

@palastofhistory4026

Ай бұрын

Why? For defending his allies

@aagold76

Ай бұрын

@@palastofhistory4026 war crimes- the people of Germany paid for them for years and he got a cushy exile.

I feel so sorry for him.

@tuomasronnberg5244

2 ай бұрын

Dude sounds like a douchebag though. Never admitting your own mistakes and always blaming the others is the single most infuriating trait in a person.

Mr Hohenzollern

@HauntedXXXPancake

2 ай бұрын

Willy.

He should've stayed in power till his death. I'm not a monarchist or anything but he looked way less goofy in his old age.

@Argacyan

2 ай бұрын

He might have stayed longer in power had the allies not demand him step down, but given the circumstances in Germany he never could have stayed in power until death even if the allies wanted him to. The end of WW1 in Germany was an outbreak of revolutions that included sections of the army & navy engaging in open rebellion from the government. While there was extreme violence already, for him to remain in power likely would've increased the risk of a larger war breaking out in Germany.

@HauntedXXXPancake

2 ай бұрын

Gosh yes ! We should really put more attention to looks when it comes to who's in charge ! All sarcasm aside - He probably would have stayed just as "goofy", had he not been taken down a few hundred pegs by getting dethroned.

I think that monarchy is a grossly outdated concept. Could we clean this place out a bit and install Charles and Camilla until they agree to wind up the British monarchy?

God save the Kaiser

Support and restored German Empire Thomas yes Danke. Awesome thanks. You get with Bismarck Germany Thomas. Barqi Italy it German Italians with Italian citizenship 10000 population. Italy Republic 🇮🇹🇮🇹 support Germany and Austria and the EU. Pietro Boselli Italian runs Italy Thomas he a friend. Awesome. Brilliant content.

Very well researched.