Huis Doorn III

Director: unknown | Production Country: Netherlands | Year: 1932 | Production Company: unknown | FLM29943 | Film from the collection of EYE (Amsterdam) - www.eyefilm.nl/en
Amateur film with individual shots of a visit by Poultney Bigelow to Huis Doorn and Wilhelms hobbies; we also see images of chopping wood.
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[@horstschlemmer2042]

Crazy that this man with one crippled arm chopping wood was once the most powerful man in the world.

[@aeryd4xx]

he never was the most powerful man in the world

[@AlamoOriginal]

Behind King George maybe, he was second or third, the military hold the real power by the start of WW1

[@horstschlemmer2042]

@@AlamoOriginal well King George had no real power just like the queen today.

[@AlamoOriginal]

@@horstschlemmer2042 exactly, but if we are being pedantic, then so does Willhelm, but both are rulers either way

[@horstschlemmer2042]

@@AlamoOriginal The German Kaiser appointed the Chancellor without the need of asking the parliament. In addition the votes for the parliament was weighted so in reality the votes of the common people had only very little influence while the aristocracy held the power. The Kaiser was able to make his own foreign policy and rule without the parliament through the Chancellor whom he appointed himself. If a new law was needed and he has no majority in the parliament he could either persuade the aristocracy or use some emergency powers just like in the end phase of the Weimar Republic. He was the supreme commander of the army and by this he could levy taxes with the explanation that it benefits the army. So basically he controlled the executive and a substantial part of the legislative part of the government. Yes with the beginning of WW1 this changed because he was smart enough to not lead the troops himself but to give the power to the more qualified Generals of the OKH.... unlike his Russian cousin XD King George had not such power. He could declare war on foreigners but as soon as he needed money for this war he had to consult the parliament. He could not just appoint a head of state but could only veto. He could not make laws but could only veto. Yes Britain was a powerful state but the individual powers of the ruler was different to Germany.

[@Rojaniel]

I think it's awesome that old footage of the Kaiser Wilhelm still exists. This is something that belongs in a museum, imo. I mean, a rare look at such an important figure in history, no less.

[@kleinemonnik]

The Eye Filmmuseum, who posted this, is actually a film museum in Amsterdam. So these images actually come from a museum :).

[@AlamoOriginal]

@@kleinemonnik interesting, more of it should be uploaded, its a piece of history

[@kleinemonnik]

@@AlamoOriginal That's exactly what they are doing. Great stuff.

[@meinwerbellinsee]

Sehr schöne Bilder des Kaisers!!! Vielen Dank fürs hochladen, große Freude!!!!

[@ilect1690]

damn that guy looks exactly like how i imagened an old kaiser wilheim ii

[@AnonymousL16]

hes still seccy

[@kienboy9999]

He looks like he was born to be a leader. He did have the charisma of a king.

[@Whiteboard44]

@SuperMagren Half true, he wasnt a figure head till like the middle of the war

[@Kaurv]

REJECT MODERNITY EMBRACE TRADITION

[@Alfred_Leonhart]

Ok sounds good to me dude

[@harukrentz435]

Good find yourself a lord to serve be their serfdom.

[@mimimccreary8072]

No sound?

[@Alfred_Leonhart]

I wonder what they’re saying

[@russianarmy8976]

It was just boring smalltalk

[@Клисы16]

Mein kaiser❤

[@Tralala691]

Love old Germany. Now.....girly boys is all.

[@darrenwalsh354]

Absolutely wonderful footage just wish we knew what they were saying 😊

[@RanjitSingh-ul1xk]

Wonder, why this clown Wilhelm was not tried, in a more civilized world, for crimes against humanity even if it meant trying him posthumously? A lot of old issues have been raised in a court of law. He initiated a devastating war in a fit of pique. Countless perished. Unprecedented misery was wrought. Another clown named Hitler followed in Wilhelm's footsteps. The misery was repeated. I hope the Germans have learned a sobering lesson and will refrain from further recidivism.

[@obamajoker7166]

I guess the US soldiers who tried to kidnap him thought about the same exact thing

[@horstschlemmer2042]

I think you should learn the lesson to look at history from a differentiated perspective. It seems to me that you blame solely Germany for WW1 and everything that came later. Which is objectively wrong. And it seems to me that you don’t know anything about the German culture of pacifism and remembering the world wars which is practiced on an excessive scale. So before you write an angry replie take a moment and think about what I wrote. It’s not an insult to you and it’s not meant to belittle you.

[@atsukunisumeragi1967]

You should not speak badly of Germans, in ancient times their beliefs were close to Sanatana Dharma (which is also the source of Sikhism) and fragments still survive to this day in Germanic culture and behaviour, though even in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, they were noted to live in free cities with manly people. There are things to criticize the Germans for, and the last Kaiser too probably, but ridicule doesn't come to mind. Also... Be aware that civilized simply means urban, domesticated. Realize that if you are a Lion, each time you praise civilisation beyond its worth in spiritual applications, you get coined. Do you want to ontologically be a zoo-lion ?

[@AlamoOriginal]

@@atsukunisumeragi1967 the hell are you talking about?

[@jackmorrison7379]

@@horstschlemmer2042 The German culture of pacifism? Yes, after the disaster of two World Wars and with a lot of pressure from the allies to forget militarism. I have heard the military in Germany is still shamed by the political left who blow whistles and try to interrupt military parades or ceremonies. All of that is after WW II. Before then you have two factors Prussian militarism until 1918, and then the smoldering hatred and sense of revenge against the post-WW I treaties considered unfair by Germans. Before 1950 pacifism was just the thinking of academics and the intelligentsia and artistic community.