Kaiser Wilhelm II (🇩🇪) || WW1 edit || The Exception |

[@MilitaryTacticsHQ]

The man who is shouting is Kaiser Wilhelm II, the German empire leader during WW1. He is talking about all the sacrifices he did for his country and no how no one cared. May god bless him (1859-1941)💔🪽 Movie name: The Exception

[@lucasfragoso7634]

My brother in christ, the guy, was a moron through and through. He literally ruined everything Bismarck worked for, including the political isolation of France, ruined the alliance with Russia, and decided hm yes try to compete with the british on the high seas what could possibly go wrong!

[@jonahchmiel1994]

„MaY gOd BlEsS hIm“. You know that you are Not only praising an arrogant Idiot, you are also praising a Person who was partly responsible for the Genocide of the Herero and Nama?! You cannot just put „Another Love“ over a Movie Clip and suddenly everyone becomes the Poor, abandoned hero

[@merciandtheboys1937]

@@lucasfragoso7634He honoured his promise to Austria to March with then into war, his navy at times did what they want and ignored general strategy that aligned with the war effort. And his generals seeing no progress made and the war not turning into there favour due to the horrors of trench warfare turned against him. By no means stupid in any regard, just the people around him did not have the Integrity he did.

[@juliooo135]

@@lucasfragoso7634 Wahr, aber man muss dazu sagen das Bismarks system sehr Kompliziert war.

[@JasonavHumpreyBoogart]

​@@juliooo135BIS MARK the Iron cancelor much more steel balls than Margaret That cher

[@therevolutionaryh4z]

"am i to blame, for every misfortune on this earth?" first line hits hard already

[@tauhidershadKUFNAFLORAN]

yes.

[@Sweetness71775]

Cecil Rhodes is to blame for WW1.

[@zmajooov]

not for every misfortune, but for a lot of them, yes. courtesy of his idiotic policies and shortsightedness.

[@kaiglass4347]

​@@tauhidershadKUFNAFLORAN🤦‍♂️

[@TomMentch]

​@@Sweetness71775Austria hungry was actually the one we shouldn't have blamed Kaiser Wilhelm 2 told frace please I don't want to fight with you

[@alessavictoria]

Bismarck warned him

[@vinz4066]

And He didnt listen

[@internetexplorer3999]

in fact he did quite the opposite

[@Carthagian]

​​@@internetexplorer3999Bismarck knew that fighting in two fronts is a way to lose and warned him ,but he refused to listen

[@beatricemuvengwi]

​@@CarthagianI believe it's the trenches that did Germany in cos it made it basically meant germany couldnt end the war quickly like it did in the franco prussian war

[@Valentin_126]

​@@Carthagian The Kaiser didn't want a war, politicians did

[@tobyww]

To those who don’t understand, after WW1 Wilhelm II was seen responsible for every bad thing happening in the new government. All he could do is watch people hate on him while he was in exile

[@tyshawnbryant3468]

Yea he should be held responsible if yall wanna debate about in the comments I'm here for it any day

[@tankpea2]

​@@tyshawnbryant3468how is he to blame for shit hindenburgs gov. did ?

[@tyshawnbryant3468]

@droppeddogs yea because his staff were lying to him telling him he was winning but when they finally started to tell the truth he was to embarrassed to make ceasefire fire early on even when his country was starving he still held on to the hope of winning when he knew it was not possible

[@TheRatOnFire_]

​@@tyshawnbryant3468 LOL, it was AH and Russia who started the war. He had to defend AH, who was a major ally, or else risk being alone on the European stage. If you wanna blame someone, blame Princep

[@stateofflorida5082]

​​@@TheRatOnFire_Without the very untactful guarantee of German assistance, its very likely the Habsburgs would've backed down since it would've left them alone in a war with Russia. A more competent Emperor would've withdrew support after the Serbian response to the Austrian ultimatum at the very latest.

[@RobertAnderson-o6l]

Three cousins One cousin left dead One cousin left with nothing One cousin left

[@oldluke7653]

Queen Victoria never would have allowed it.

[@Dino_edits1-23]

@@oldluke7653 But now it is too late. It’s part of the past now😔

[@Vidhur]

@@oldluke7653 She wouldn't have allowed alot of other bad things either... I shouldn't go into detail, otherwise the ree'ing starts.

[@Polariti]

One cousin left with a beta male in his throne today

[@Gaius_Julius_Caesar_Augustus]

​@@Vidhurgo into details, I wanna learn

[@Adwitiya-iw2ln]

Germany would fall in 20 years after my death. -Otto von Bismarck (1898)

[@maxkessler1922]

He never say that

[@Sircowcosmic]

He did in fact say that

[@faidh8]

Any treaty with Russia is not worth even the piece of paper on which it was signed. (c) Otto von Bismarck.

[@lapen2833]

​@@faidh8reality check: FULL QUOTE: "Do not expect that once taking advantage of Russia's weakness, you will receive dividends forever. Russian has always come for their money. And when they come - do not rely on an agreement signed by you, you are supposed to justify. They are not worth the paper it is written. Therefore, with the Russian is to play fair, or do not play."

[@faidh8]

@@lapen2833 fake

[@V-S7909]

Fun Fact: When Bismark was dismissed from the position of Chancellor of the German Empire by Kasier Wilhelm ll in 1890, he said that "The crash will come twenty years after my departure if things go on like this".

[@greenknightofwar7024]

Which while true, I don’t think Bismarck staying in charge a few more years would’ve changed anything. Bismarck had noticed by the end that the alliances he was trying to maintain was impossible with no real way to circumvent it.

[@louayGamer]

@@greenknightofwar7024 No, Russian German alliance was solid, backing dying Austria instead is a mistake that would never have occurred.

[@greenknightofwar7024]

@@louayGamer that is incorrect. The Russians and the Austrians have fundamentally different plans for the Balkans. The second is the Russians aggressive expansionist behavior was always going to end in conflict. The reason it didn’t sooner was because of Russia wasn’t a modernized country yet. Had Russia modernized it would’ve then turn on Germany to claim the role of European hegemony. Backing Austria was an admission by Wilhelm that there was nothing Germany could offer Russia long term that would keep them loyal, so instead he choose to back a fellow German country that while unstable could act as balancing force in the Balkans against Russia. It’s not his fault the Austro-Hungarian price was killed and the world fell into war.

[@Hollows1997]

He also said to have predicted that: “Europe today is a powder keg and the leaders are like men smoking in an arsenal … A single spark will set off an explosion that will consume us all … I cannot tell you when that explosion will occur, but I can tell you where … Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans will set it off.”

[@nickbell4984]

​@@greenknightofwar7024No Bismarck was quite friendly with the Russian Empire and would never under any circumstances allowed Germany to enter a war against Great Britain.

[@1111kila]

"For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German" - Kaiser Wilhelm II, after learning about Kristallnacht

[@Aniki1337]

He wasn't the best Kaiser, but he was infinitely more german than Hitler and the Nazis could've ever been.

[@koltonlomas7111]

​@@Aniki1337exactly. I hate Hitler for what he did to Germany's reputation. Germany is only remembered for the Nazis and never remembered for the great empire it used to be

[@inquisition3173]

My favorite thing Wilhelm is his bitter resentment of hitler and their whole frenemy exchange until Wilhelm's death. Hitler wanted Wilhelm's blessing to rule the German Empire and was hellbent on securing it with or without Wilhelm's approval. Wilhelm managed to die without the Germans getting ahold of him, and Wilhelm made it loud and clear the Nazis were absolute filth.

[@CommanderLongJohn]

​@inquisition3173 A.H. literally didn't give a shit about the Kaiser lol, he saw him as part of the problem, the old dying conservative aristocracy, the man responsible for ending a war they were winning on the losers side ushering in over a decade of economic ruin and social degeneracy and international humiliation.

[@1111kila]

@@inquisition3173 Hitler blamed the kaiser for losing the war, but he could not deny the symbolism Wilhelm holds and what he means for the German people

[@ТинкаСлавова-у1э]

This is exactly how almost every veteran feels for his country

[@Dino_edits1-23]

Agreed

[@AlekzanderTamayo-ln8bf]

FACTS

[@simonriley4131]

Yeah, except your precious "kaiser" didn't step one foot onto the battlefield, nor did he even command troops in any significant way. Nah, just ordered millions to their deaths, and whined like a little bitch when he was forced to step down

[@hrtvolleyball01]

You realize this guy is a monarch and he never fought? He was smoking cigars and drinking brandy in his castles/mansion. It’ll never stop shocking me how people will ascribe “every-man” qualities to people like this. He’s literally blaming the armed forces for his own loss of status (…while sitting in a mansion smoking cigars and drinking brandy) Yikes 😬

[@SummonJaja]

​@@hrtvolleyball01 do you even know what he did and at the end his military got control over the country and brought them into this war he actually tried to avoid the war...

[@claymoreALBA]

WW1 was too complicated to be anyone's fault, a shining example of why rampant interventionism leads to nothing but death and suffering, everyone lost.

[@altairibn-laahad5889]

WW1 was caused because of the interest system lol

[@zachlaliberte2396]

​@@altairibn-laahad5889stop being dum

[@75216garrison]

Not interventionism but isolationism. People not wanting to get involved until it became a military conflict. People like you cause wars because you let them grow before acting

[@claymoreALBA]

@@75216garrison The wars of the world are not the concern of my people

[@75216garrison]

@@claymoreALBA lol what are your people

[@Furkan-YILDIZ]

"Steiner's attack was an order" but Wilhelm edition

[@calvinsuu1949]

"Dont worry Steiner will repel them..."

[@mohammeduzair7796]

Yeah if steiner knows how raise dead men ​germany could've won the war@@calvinsuu1949

[@BierKopf]

Steiners Angriff war ein Befehl

[@settios8765]

best comment ever

[@Truthaboveusall]

no actually Germany was doing so good in terms of armed forces the only problem is was resources however they didn't have to surrender they were actually winning against all odds check the history of WW1 it fascinating how Germany always more capable than any other country in the world in terms of military equipment and strategies .

[@the_experement]

*"Leaders made us fight, but in reality we dont want war"* -A soilder during Christmas truce

[@scribblypibbles4129]

The Germans initiated that truce.

[@MrApemonk]

Ja und deutsche Generäle haben es verhindert, dass daraus ein vollständiger Friede wird.

[@nejzk2026]

@@scribblypibbles4129 because germany was ruled by christian monarch, and not some ruthless democratic no one

[@samcords7389]

Me and my fellow Canadians don't care.

[@monoancestral]

​@@nejzk2026 "Christian monarch" who started one of the biggest wars in history. If he wanted war so badly he should have gone himself rather than blaming the ones who died for him like a coward.

[@Dino_edits1-23]

“An emperor without a country” That hits different😢

[@tickles5289]

An emperor not "a emperor."

[@Dino_edits1-23]

@@tickles5289 Oh my bad. Thank you for correcting me😅 God bless

[@edwardcullen4477]

​@@Dino_edits1-23It's emperor

[@Dino_edits1-23]

@@edwardcullen4477 It’s? Nahh more like “An”

[@davipires5303]

Pedro II feels...

[@newskenger3885]

First rule of leadership: You are responsible.

[@baronbrummbar8691]

TBF ther is alot of Propaganda against him - he wasn´t a dictator he had limited power he tried to prevent the war (we have the letters) but Nikolas wanted war to stabilize russia - and the military didn´t listen to him they listend to hindenburg and Ludendorf

[@ТинкаСлавова-у1э]

He was responsible,but nobody except Bulgaria helped him to win the war.Austrien empire did nothing ant the Otomans doesn't do something important

[@baronbrummbar8691]

@@ТинкаСлавова-у1э he clearly wasn´t serbia finanzed terrorists and russia supported them doing so

[@therealignotus7549]

@@ТинкаСлавова-у1э Austria-Hungary held the Russians in order for Germany to take France before winter as the Schliffen plan had set out. They were outnumbered. Their failure was in Serbia. The Ottomans fought well, and clowned the British at Gallipoli. That Germany carried everything itself is a myth, it did so only after 1916 when the Austro-Hungarians and Ottomans were finnished in morale and streanght. BUT, the same was true for Russia at the time.

[@frantisekmoravec7317]

@@ТинкаСлавова-у1э bro gets his history education from tik toks

[@alialtuntas8207]

I once saw a comment on KZbin about him. The guy was telling that his hometown was close to the Wilhelm II's exile place and his grandfather was telling a story from his childhood which goes like this: "When we were kids, in the neighboring town there was a man living, he was just chopping wood every morning then goes into the house and never to be seen for that day. Since he was a mysterious figure the kids(grandfather and his friends) were afraid of them and just peeks him sometimes. One day he asks his father who he was and the father replied: 'That man was a once powerful man, he wanted more power but he couldn't achieve to gain it. He lost everything and now, he lives here with us.' " I think it is a cool story especially if it is true.

[@Akshat699-c3y]

I also once read a similar comment about a guy who lived near Kaiser Wilhelms exile place. He told that his grandmother once told him a story that a man tried to conquer Russia, Belgium and France but failed he used to live near us and used to cut woods everyday.

[@dieserjohannes1179]

my famaly actualy had ties to the Hohenzollers (today it is not as strong as back then) and my famaly helped Kaiser Wilhelm II to escape germany into exile after ww1

[@valentinlageot4101]

@@Akshat699-c3y mom and dad lore be wild

[@ArriodeValVerde]

​@@dieserjohannes1179 are you a noble?

[@dieserjohannes1179]

@@ArriodeValVerde yes i have ancestry from nobility

[@Dev_Six]

In Finland, Kaiser Wilhelm II is remembered fondly as instrumental in our independence, even being honored by songs.

[@olegrusanov3866]

how did the Kaiser help your independence? as far as I know, during the First World War you were part of the Russian empire and without the help of the communists it would not have disintegrated, and the first person who recognized you was grandfather Lenin, so shouldn’t you honor and praise him, or is your hatred of communism so strong that even your liberator is a tyrant for you?

[@mic4831]

​@@olegrusanov3866the bolshavics had a agressive stance towards finland during the interwar period. They wanted to take finlands eastern forrests to neteur finlands defensive capability. This tension and then stalins reign led to the winter war. Infact the communist killed more then the nazis. The most shameful time of human history...

[@adervas8536]

​@@mic4831и сколько же коммунисты убили? Пол населения земли?

[@ARMSCOF]

​​@@olegrusanov3866We literally declared our own independence from the Russians on 6 December 1917, but we only requested a recognition of independence from Lenin just like we requested the same thing from Sweden, Germany, France and so on. Also if you seem to think you're some kind of expert in Finnish history, I assume you know the sides of the Finnish Civil War and what Germans did for us.

[@Dev_Six]

@olegrusanov3866 He approved and funded the Finnish White army that fought against the Reds in favor of independence.

[@The-Red-Baron]

Kaiser Wilhelm II is one of the most misunderstood leaders in Modern history. I feel so bad for him and the amount of slander that was thrown at him. May Wilhelm rest in peace. (fun fact: before 1914, right before World War one broke out, Kaiser Wilhelm was known as "the peace Kaiser"

[@Sir_Hammock]

the emperor of peace... that sounds beautiful

[@FreyR_Kunn]

He was a childish ruler with mental issues. He gave Austria-Hungary clearance to enact a war of imperialism against Serbia.

[@joeboma-tr2os]

@@FreyR_Kunn After Serbia (including the Serbian Crown Prince) funded and aided terrorist groups like the Black Hand inside Austria that went and killed the Austrian Archduke? Plus the German backing was reaffirmed after Russia started threatening intervention if Austria retaliated against Serbia in which Austria was very well justified to do so. The only thing Wilhelm did especially wrong in terms of expanding the war was let his generals run freely to win the war after the Schlieffen Plan failed to take Paris and the British joined the Entente. (Wilhelms go ahead order on the invasion of Belgium after the Belgians refused German military access is to blame there ofc) But the war had already boiled up before the invasion so Germany's fault there was only expanding the war by dragging in the British and Belgians.

[@FreyR_Kunn]

@@joeboma-tr2os While the Serbian government did have connections to the Black Hand, there is no definitive evidence proving they were in on the plot to kill Ferdinand. Have you heard of the ultimatum AH sent to Serbia? Serbia agreed to every demand except one which was that AH officers would be allowed to roam free in Serbia to "investigate," effectively removing Serbian sovereignty. They also only gave Serbia less than 2 days to accept the demands. AH was forcing war on Serbia when Serbia was happy to cooperate. Wilhelm told AH it could enact an unjust war with German support. Russia threatened intervention because Serbia was an ally. Germany had no real reason to join the war nor did it have justification.

[@smcsixes]

@@FreyR_Kunn A war of imperialism? Germany insisted that AH should stop at Belgrade if they invaded, and AH had zero intention of annexing Serbia. The problem was that AH took an entire MONTH to do anything, which Germany did not like. I bet if AH was much quicker with a response (say, within 7 days), no major European war would occur since the world was highly sympathetic to Austria after the assassination. However, in OTL, Austria responded so late that any sympathies were practically gone.

[@thesoldier8477]

The movie is the exception, and it takes place in Holland before WW2. Wilhelm was living in exile there and the Nazis sent troops to guard him pretending to support him so they could get clout with the monarchists back in Germany

[@sifatkhan1603]

Whats the movie name?

[@russianinvader3207]

@@sifatkhan1603 The Exception

[@Aktis13]

yeah the second guy has nazi logo under the eagle

[@gijskramer1702]

His house is still there, you can visit it. Has a nice big garden

[@Douchey_Elkmen]

The Netherlands was occupied during the time of the visit. Foreign troops and domestic soil, and waving their flag outside doesn't mean their here for a visit.

[@marshal_anon4522]

"Am I to be blamed for all the misfortune on this earth?" My Lord, you are a sovereign, all the fortune and misfortune in the country is all yours.

[@geniuscani8754]

He truly was chosen by god. I didn't know he was omnipotent in germany, that absolutely all goverment was done by him, that no other man had a say on it and that everyone did just as Wilhelm said.

[@greenknightofwar7024]

That’s not true in the slightest, because he advocated strongly against war, but the Reichstag and his generals absolutely wanted a war.

[@chrisalvarezit]

But he was an idiot. The fact that he was so bent on having a powerful navy when UK would feel threatened but he kept thinking, oh, the Queen is family, nothing is going to happen, oo the Tzar is my cousin, nothing bad is going to happen. Oo lets favour the Jews in a country that already hates them way before the birth of Hitler, I don't think that the uneducated rabble would ever end up hating even more a race of people that they already hate when they suffering increases and they need someone to pay for that. The fact that Hitler was so successful so quickly could be argued to be the product of his stupidity.

[@blep129]

@@geniuscani8754whaaat brother he was not chosen by God, unless you are being sarcastic

[@MattR2201]

@@blep129 he was. Pointing out how dumb the comment he was replying to was

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

Great performance by Christopher Plummer! He realy does look like the old Kaiser and just dominates this sequence! Superb actor!

[@AldebaranBaron]

Germany didn't start the war, they were simply honoring their agreement with the Austrians.

[@AerYdmyg]

Yes but they didn’t Help It Either. Keep in mind we’re “recalling” history not playing favorites. While Austria declared war on Serbia in 1914 Germany was sinking Englands ships which was a huge no no so America had to get involved and when Germany lost Verdun and the battle of moms the Kaiser fled his country leaving it in ruins bc of both the remaining German revolutionaries as well as the Americans who wanted to put him on trial for War Crimes. He was more honorable than Herr Hitler but was by no means a “good man” as well as Germany’s military and leaders very much Helped begin America’s necessary involvement during WW1.

[@slooofer]

@@AerYdmygI mean I still SORTA think it wasn’t mainly Germany’s fault in WW1, they got dragged into it by the Austrian-Hungarian empire, whom they had to carry throughout the entire war, and then received a huge like, fine for a war they didn’t start.

[@AverageHistoryEnjoyer1914]

@@AerYdmyg Wow, sinking ships in war, who would've thought! America joined the war due to the telegram to mexico, and the sinking of an american civillian ship.

[@republic0_032]

They shouldn’t have intervened on behalf of a empire that'd probably have fallen apart anyway with it’s ethnic tensions. Without German backing Austria would think twice before doing anything.

[@victorrachid6558]

Nope. German high command pressured austrian high command to invade Serbia and Austria would not have done anything without german support.

[@kadenp.8953]

It’s okay, I’m sure all the veterans in ww1 were VERY grateful for the Kaiser

[@JoaoVitor-dj1wl]

​@bvillafuerte765Hitler hated Wilhelm lol

[@blobanimatesb7466]

He was anti war and the soldiers wanted war from what i heard

[@muntadar1655]

​@@blobanimatesb7466 not the soldiers, the brass

[@bruhbruh-us6gl]

Monarchist paramilitaries made up of war veterans were pretty common in postwar Germany. They missed their Kaiser

[@joshuacampodonico6554]

Nothing can hurt a man more that gave so much in service to his country than to wake up one morning and find his country has fallen. My heart breaks for him I can’t imagine the burden he must have carried to try and keep it together.

[@Cameron-f2w]

Long may the Kaiser’s memory live on

[@ConnorJones-pl4nn]

I feel bad for Wilhelm. He was hated and berated by Edward VII, who nearly isolated him, his counselors fed him lies and disobeyed his orders, he supported the only ally he had left, and tried so hard, but everyone doesn’t care about anything he said or did and ousted him in 1916. He was a humanitarian, now, the whole world sees him as a monster. Tragic.

[@josephsmith106]

A king without a country. His life was truly wild.

[@PropperNaughtyGeezer]

Johann Ohneland?

[@sayville_silver]

King? Emperor. Respect the titles.

[@niedrichFrietzsche]

​@sayville_silver He was also the King of Prussia in personal union... to be fair :D

[@TheKaiserofeurope]

@@sayville_silver kaiser

[@ethanchen4504]

He retired as a one-armed lumberjack. He wrote a diary. Tried to get his position back through Hitler, but Hitler believed that the Kaiser was a load of shit and laughed him off when he asked for an office.

[@impostor101]

Eh-Dit: the rest of you sus will never know what i did here to have this 1 like

[@Apersonfromanothergalaxy]

это печально

[@jensschreckenderhiesigenha144]

Schade eigentlich

[@ItsJims]

It's sad that they also murdered his son and daughters

[@joniraurgiasategi861]

Jajajajaja JUSTICE

[@Mmm_people]

Меня всегда удивляло реакция иностранцев что мы убили Николашку кровавого да мы его убили наши предки его убили вы думаете потому что мы его ненавидели потому что он был таким добрым многие не знают почему его назвали кровавым

[@shubhnamdeo2865]

The Kaiser's only mistake was being unable to stop his chancellor to give a blank cheque to Austria. Nobody remembers that he built the navy, and strengthened the army, he used the industrial complexes of Germany, built over generations and turned Germany into the economic hotspot on planet earth for decades. People forget that it was under him that great minds were trained, talent without training is nothing. Germany didn't build its power on the corpses of millions unlike the French, the Imperial Russians, and the British who sacrificed tens of millions. He built Germany what it was, he even respected workers' rights, something Bismarck never wanted. Bismarck was a great foreign minister, but a terrible one at domestic policies, his only approach being using force, which only buys short-term insurance for the nation. The Kaiser offered Bismarck the position of FM, but Bismarck being the tantrum-thrower he was (I still respect him deeply for his foreign policy) said he wanted to either be Chancellor or get retirement.

[@Kloeten9393]

yeah nice fantasy text. U still miss the fact that germany had also colonies in africa and were abusing the people there

[@shubhnamdeo2865]

@@Kloeten9393 I never denied that. But their industries existed way before their conquests of Africa. Unlike Britain or France. So while yes, Germany was brutal they did not treat their subjects like the Brits, or worse the Dutch did. I'm Asian so I guess I can say this without being called white supremacist (I'm not even white).

[@WorldArchivist]

​@@Kloeten9393 Still tame compared to other nations like Belgium.

[@reallygoodgame]

@@Kloeten9393 Every colonial and imperialist empires by that time is all response for atrocities in their own colonies. And for Germany, of course, they did. (e.g. Herero and Nama genocide)

[@muntadar1655]

​@@reallygoodgame then what's the point of that "he never built it on millions of corpses" part?

[@trashcrash8319]

I got goosebumps when he said “Where were they?” It almost got me to tears

[@reddeaddude2187]

"Long live sacred Germany." - Stauffenberg

[@fredrik38949]

Since he was German I would venture to guess it’s more like “Es lebe das heilige Deutschland”

[@reddeaddude2187]

Well I don't sprechen sie Deutsch.

[@ДмитрийАлександрович-ш6м]

Да здравствует Россия 9 мая 1945 🇷🇺❤

[@AerYdmyg]

Look them in the eye, they’ll remember you❤️

[@NEPNEP420]

1990​@@ДмитрийАлександрович-ш6м

[@simoncz_idk]

Average hoi4 player after getting naval invasion from uk for 9999999 times: Edit: why it has 2k likes? -_•? Edit 2: thx for 3,9k likes

[@HumanLore_1]

Best comment

[@simoncz_idk]

@@HumanLore_1 thanks, are you from ireland?

[@ALIKN1-1]

Exactly I usually shout : WHERE WERE THEY

[@simoncz_idk]

@@HumanLore_1 nice, Ireland is cool country

[@LudwigHewitt]

lol wtf

[@tyronerust8307]

Paul von Lettow and August von Mackensen never forgot you Wilhelm, even after the war they wanted you back, they wouldve fought for you had you asked them to

[@christianfreedom-seeker934]

Most of the Prussian leadership quickly bowed to Adolf Hitler and thankfully most of them lost their lives for it.

[@bobfg3130]

Mackensen didn't have the pull he had at that point.

[@tyronerust8307]

@bobfg3130 he did back in the thirties but by the 40s it had pretty much dwindled. Had the kaiser made a move back around 36 it could've gone either way

[@paoloantoniotahoynon5016]

​@@bobfg3130 mackensen did tried to bring back monarchy by starting a revolution in prussia but he was not suspected

[@slookipos]

I can honestly respect a man who would still face his own consequence after losing a war rather than, you know, putting a bullet in your head out of fear for people tainting your image

[@TheBritishQueen]

Expect. Kaiser Wilhelm literally fled to their Netherlands after the war, because of the German revolutions, and the USA wanting to arrest him for war crimes. And then he died in 1942 with words of after hearing of Kristallnacht, and the Nazis rise to power, “For once, I am ashmed to be German”. He contributed hugely to the First World War, and then got angry when people didn’t wanna keep fighting for a war they could see they were already losing. Hitler, on the other hand. Literally did the same like him. He couldn’t flee to another country, considering he was surrounded in Berlin, and Soviet troops were already outside his bunker. So he did the only thing possible, aside of probably being tortured to death. He shot himself. Knowing Wilhelm, if he was in the same situation, he would definitely also do that. Nobody here is better than the other. Both are terrible, but one is definitely more worse.

[@7ill016]

He didnt give his life to the fatherland, the soldiers did

[@drandren9093]

"Gave my life" is a figure of speech for investing ones life energy, purpose, resources etc towards something, in this case his country. To discredit that figure of speech for him would be entirely disingenuous both to him and his country men. Especially the laborers of his country that helped build the German economy and spent decades of their life performing hard labor to build.

[@luzifershadres]

@@drandren9093 well yes, but people didnt saw that after he sneaked out the country in 1918 leaving behind a confused country that espected a response to versailes.

[@MediCrossReed]

@@luzifershadres He didn't sneak out, He had to abdicate because he lost support from the Military and Government. If he stayed longer civil war might happen.

[@kloic9334]

@@MediCrossReed And after he abdicated, civil war happened, so ...

[@Melonist]

@@MediCrossReed He '''had''' to abdicate (read: flee into exile) because he refused to beforehand. Only after the revolutionaries had effectively won, and after the army refused to follow his orders, and after his chancellor falsely proclaimed (to little impact) that he'd already abdicated, did he finally do so.

[@markbowles2382]

Christopher Plummer is the (or one of) the best actors of our time.

[@shellashafira2413]

Especially his movie “ the sound of music “

[@Diom_des]

I remember him playing the Duke of Wellington in Napoleon (1970)

[@videowilliams]

Thank you for his name! Of course I knew his face and voice. I remember him best as General Chang in Star Trek VI :p

[@TheMouseandtheboys]

Eiffel always have the Kaiser in my heart. I am German, and for the German economy I will have him in my memory forever for the Fatherland

[@Wagner9799]

Hitler in the corner:🚬🗿

[@byronmann4525]

Eiffel is read it as ‘I will’ in German accent (eii vill)

[@iMajoraGaming]

"for the german economy" what also this is the limp-armed goober that dismissed bismarck and collapsed his country lmao kiss the ring, serf.

[@rossatkinson8621]

The kaiser was an idiot, he ruined every chance he got and threw a tantrum when he lost

[@dennisvisser3910]

@@rossatkinson8621 you know to little of the great war to say that, he tried to stop the war the beurocrats wanted a war and they made it happen both in germany and austria.

[@Майнкрафтербро-ь7ю]

He was so close to victory 😢

[@M2Music_96]

The old lion had ended, and when he arrived the mighty young lion came and took over Europe. But the young lion failed to rule the world. Finally, the soul of the king in Germany was lost.

[@zacharyburks5676]

RIP Wilhelm ii, you may think you have been forgotten but you and the 2 Reich has not been forgotten.

[@evin1035]

just another German barbarian

[@SteyrM95]

Fur Gott Kaiser und Vaterland

[@dedstarperUwU]

За Бога ,Царя и Отечество. Какие люди все таки одинаковые где бы не жили. Всего хорошего это ваша история и помните ее. Удачи

[@alexeieremia1061]

Bro that guy is a horrible person. He joined the war knowing what it would start. Because of him many people died.

[@MyILoveMinecraft]

​​@@alexeieremia1061 he wasnt a terrible person. He actually cared about his people >fired Bismarck because he wanted the army to shot at striking coal miners, Wilhelm wanted to hear them out >introduced the first German welfare system, including healthcare and pensions >furthered the sciences with his own fortune via the kaiser Wilhelm society. And for the war, he was the last monarch still writing letters to the other leaders in Europe to prevent war. As he was forced to come to his allies help, but nobody predicted trench warfare. He was basically promised a repeat of the Franco Prussian war in the east with the Schliefen plan

[@qu1tgamee]

Whichever side you are serving for, everyone respects you for your services

[@danishcossack4392]

Germany's history since its founding in 1871 is so dramatic, it's really remarkable

[@Duncan_McGillicutty]

In an actual written letter from Wilhelm II he also blamed the jews for many of failings of Germany, I wonder if they showed that in the movie

[@fotigou]

Freemasons, bolsheviks, Jews, the unholy alliance." Five minutes before this scene

[@exyronylfa]

what movie is this

[@fotigou]

@exyronylfa The exception

[@Birdshitboys]

Yet Marx and many Jews actually blame their own people for their selfishness and their lack of dedication to the nation they live in and their fatherland. Yet, this is a very biased point of view, but it relates to the fact that during the 19th and early 20th century, as Jews were integrated as citizens in many nations in Europe, they actually faced resentment, had to deal with centuries of being put aside and spoiled, as well as having seen "nationalist parties" with their own agenda emerging (see Theodor Herzl, sionism, and more especially the multiple Jewish riots that advocated for a Jewish sovereignty of its own, which is as problematic as it is understandable in the complex context of the era). Jewish people were more than often seen as secessionists and enemies of the nation. Past the ethnicist and racist amalgam, a non-negligeable part of them stood that way. And such dissension feeds civil war concerns.

[@shanes.9016]

What does it matter, grass is green.

[@andrewlakie7428]

When he visited auntie queen of England as a child he was apparently taken by the magnificent navy , the navy was his sweet baby boy 😢

[@douglaskelly9173]

She was his grandmother

[@Der_Dolmetscher]

„The mistake Germany made in WWI was backing Austria, by handing Vienna a carte blanche. A fatal decision that would come back to haunt them two decades later.“ - Christopher Clark, „The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went To War in 1914“

[@USA_UNITED1776]

Bismarck did warn them.

[@luzifershadres]

@@USA_UNITED1776 Not only that, he predicted by accident that ww1 would end by 1918, beccause of "some shit" that started in the balkans.

[@MediCrossReed]

@@luzifershadres Fake quote by Bismarck

[@Freedomfighter608]

It's really a bunch of things, french need for revenge,British need for navel dominance,German need to undermind the British, the Austrians refusal to negotiate the ultimation. And the biggest is the 3 emperor treaty failing because of Russia. Tho there a lot more like Italian expansionism or Austria protection of Albania, ottomans pushing didn't Russia ect

[@josecarlosgarcia3945]

They had to back up Austria anyway because of their alliance

[@kuroplays3475]

Okay….. i couldn’t even finish watching it for the first time and i cried, it really represents so well the downfall of a man, good work

[@TubThunder]

One of them has a ww2 german uniform

[@oellappen269]

No shit.

[@Sovietunion785]

Look the uniform patch

[@Cristianoxcc7]

Some of his family was apart of the nazi party

[@Wonder_wuffe]

I guess its becus the nazis held him at a castle

[@Geminus1987]

His son fight and die with wermacht in WW2.

[@alfonsovelasquezzb108]

Kaiser Wilhelm II. You were the one who betrayed Germany when you fired Bismarck.

[@chrisa.frederich6745]

Nope . . Nicht wahr!

[@alexioskomnemos]

No Wilhelm reinforced the navy and the national security further and also more modernization and economy

[@faidh8]

Any treaty with Russia is not worth even the piece of paper on which it was signed. (c) Otto von Bismarck.

[@alfonsovelasquezzb108]

@@faidh8 100% agree. Every type of Russian government are all the same without matter the political system.

[@faidh8]

@@alfonsovelasquezzb108 Not only the government. The absolute majority of the Russian population is the same as their government. I know this because I know the Russian language almost like my mother tongue. Other nations despise their governments, but Russians pray to their government as if to gods.

[@Ramadaan-rm5lk]

I love Germany 🇩🇪❤️🇸🇴 I know the sad history about the fall of this precious man

[@ricostorch7901]

Thanks Bro from Germany 🇩🇪🙏🇸🇴

[@sticy5399]

Nothing precious about that bastard. He’s responsible for millions of deaths. 100s of thousands lost their sons, fathers and brothers because he wanted to have an empire. What a sad legacy for a weak person.

[@noobtextwritergamer]

This defeat gave rise to a evil that would crush many european nations and than finally being crushed by alliance of nations he crushed

[@madibob1411]

I mean the navy didn’t really betray him they just didn’t want to go on a suicide mission when they knew the war was over 😅

[@ege_gzlck]

So what ? they captured by britain and used against them at ww2

[@alexattfield3885]

​@@ege_gzlck1 the German navy scuttled itself rather be taken as a British prize 2 the british navy of ww2 was vastly different then the navy of ww1 almost like their was to decays of navel development in-between wars or something

[@iMajoraGaming]

​@@ege_gzlck he's talking about the mutinies.

[@iMajoraGaming]

​@@ege_gzlck also lmao at the high seas fleet being used in ww2 (it was literally scuttled)

[@Valentin_126]

The Kriegsmarine were also built to be an escort navy, that's the entire reason why Germany built such a big navy, but thanks to British propaganda everyone thought it was built to rival the British and French navy

[@jok3r906]

Remember kids... Wars are fought because old heads can't let go of the past, and face reality of times changing

[@bronsonleach3573]

Change isn't always a good thing, either especially change in this century .

[@BarryMemphis]

I have to say...Plummer always was a fine actor. Beautiful choice to cast him here. And yes, his german accent is pretty spot on. The way he pronounces the names, espicially Ludendorff, quite german sounding. 😊 Greets from Germany people, stay safe, dont start any wars 😅

[@Therealoldgaurd]

"They lost me my country" Thats ice cold

[@35SF]

Fun fact: Wilhelm the II did not surpport what Hitler was doing, Wilhelm is a W. He wasn't trying to take over the world, he was trying to defend Austria Hungary, which also had some sort of reason to cause war. Not justifying the war, but most have a point that can redeem their image somewhat. (Key word: Most)

[@ryanjw15]

Uhhh buddy Hitler wasn't trying to take over the world either...

[@35SF]

@@ryanjw15 He was...

[@35SF]

@@ryanjw15 He legit wanted to take the world, and populate it with Aryans aka native germans cause its the "superior" race

[@luzifershadres]

Well yes, but it wasnt self defence to randomly declair war on russia beccause russia tried to deescalate the sittuation.

[@35SF]

@@luzifershadres What? Russia supported Serbia who was blamed to have killed a royal family member of Austria Hungary so Russia joined the war and soon followed by the French and the Brits so Germany declared war on all the countries against Austria Hungary to hopefully defend Austria Hungary from the enemies

[@idkwhatimdoin302]

Ww1: the navy betrayed me Ww2: the ss betrayed me

[@alexanderwolfgang3571]

No, the world betrayed themselves....take a good look at America...land of pedophilia. EVEN IN CHILDRENS CARTOONS. Austrian Painter was right

[@votewaldo9876]

The Kaiser at surrendered and saved his country from total destruction, Hitler was a deluded egomaniac who turn Germany into rubble

[@baronbrummbar8691]

well the Navy did betray Wilhelm they got an order they sayed no and instead overthrew the government

[@Wuestenkarsten]

@@baronbrummbar8691 And thx the Navy did it!! Saved my Grand_ Granpa´s Live....

[@cadenz7719]

Bismarck, the man who is often credited for forming the country of Germany, he predicted WWI and how the country he help built would crumble. And he was right. Bad alliances, advancing technology, poor politics, and most importantly how it started, in the Balkans. Wilhelm II made tons of poor choices and it lead to the downfall of him and his country.

[@historyfactsshorts22]

average CK3 player after Vassals make a fraction

[@ivailopavlovski5894]

Kaiser wilhelm respected Bulgaria

[@shitabjohanmollickszhw2345]

They were allies so yeah

[@zmajooov]

not really, he specifically sent Bulgrain government a very angry telegram once Bulgarians collapsed on the Salonika front: 60.000 Serbs decided the outcome of the war. Shameful!

[@ivailopavlovski5894]

Nothing to do with what I said brother 🎉​@@zmajooov

[@Steven_McCrae]

What an actor , outstanding performance

[@therangeroneli7288]

A wise king never seeks war but But prepares for it.

[@stateofflorida5082]

He near directly incited it out of fear of the Russians

[@baronbrummbar8691]

if you make a quote name the person who sayed it (Friedrich Wilhelm I)

[@therangeroneli7288]

@baronbrummbar8691 for the life of Me I don't know who said it.

[@jon-kaleb]

As a German, I regret that our forefathers revolted against our Kaiser in 1918. I wish we had one today, our „leaders“ are ruining our country.

[@stateofflorida5082]

After he dragged them through 4 years of merciless and more pointedly meaningless war into famine and economic ruin? They were justified a few times over in deposing just cruel neglectful leadership.

[@Holy-byzantium]

As a Turkish citizen but ethnic Greek, I respect the Kaiser☦️

[@USA_UNITED1776]

I love greece and the east roman empire even as an atheist.

[@erdemalpserbes9563]

Do you like turks (İm a Türk)

[@Munchkino]

You shouldn't, that dipshit tried to influence the Greek royals to stay neutral in the war. And he wasn't even a good leader for his own country so uh nothing to respect about him.

[@cartesian_doubt6230]

@@erdemalpserbes9563 Would you like the people who invade your home, occupy your land and turn your mosques into Churches? Think about it.

[@Royal_NavyM]

No way, you exist?

[@vijeshsivasubramanian77]

Respect to Emperor Wilhelm II.

[@Austria-Hungary-yz5wi]

I can't stop watching this

[@belial4535]

Bro didn't gave his life. He gave millions of other peoples life

[@d.habubo4585]

You dont have a clue

[@belial4535]

@@d.habubo4585 yeah stop crying little fanboy

[@stateofflorida5082]

​@@d.habubo4585He gets to dine in comfortable exile having thrown his country into collapse in an inane powerplay to keep the Russians from overtaking them. One which culminated over three decades later with the Russians taking suzereinity over half of Europe, including half of Germany.

[@Jordy_McCroquette]

For real though, that's the actual way ruleship works, bro. That's the way it was, that's the way it is, and that's the way it's gonna be. So don't be a bitch to a man who was raised for this, even if he was idiotic and entitled.

[@kraijom319]

He's a constitutional monarch, while he definetely had more authority than the likes of Westminster you cant really fully blame him for German Foreign Policy. Now Nicholas II, you can definetely blame him.

[@RobertAnderson-o6l]

"Germany didn’t start WWI, it was Gavrilo Princip"

[@SolidArt1]

technically germany did start ww1

[@RobertAnderson-o6l]

@@SolidArt1 How?

[@RobertAnderson-o6l]

@@SolidArt1 If anything it was Serbia’s fault for backing the organization Princip was apart of

[@aleksandarmaksic5040]

@@RobertAnderson-o6l you mean the organization that was illegal in Serbia and considered terrorist, and whos heads were shot and burried in unmarked graves once they were known?

[@DarthPounder]

Lol war was inevitable. Princip is a scapegoat. C'mon you really think one young man was responsible for a world war? They just needed a reason and he gave them one. He was a nobody. A tool that was used.

[@billtheunknown917]

The saddest man when the war broke out he try everything if his minister didn’t wait 13 hours before sending his demand to not attack , if he didn’t go on a trip and leave is minister to run the crisis, if the general in the russian army had listened to the tsar order and stop mobilization, The world was out to get him they want him dead for a war he didnt cause

[@BoiiZy]

Without your people , you're nothing than just a dust .

[@kaiserreich6482]

Thanks Kaiser, for leading one of the most powerful empires in history during the second most bloodfull war in history 🫡👑

[@ilikegoodchicken6510]

Buddy get a Life

[@rycaruth8856]

not the 2nd most bloody death in history (I guess depends on def, but still) but the Kaiser was a very ineffective military leader.

[@alexeieremia1061]

@@ilikegoodchicken6510 real

[@Jeremia-ek3jd]

@@alexeieremia1061you should get a life and start looking outside the picture. Mad man Churchill chasing one single ship with his whole arm of navy. That’s pathetic what the British did. They could have easily signed a settlement in 1916 but greedy west did not

[@AJNexusMusic]

5th most deadly

[@fiorinopizio4554]

"I gave mi life to the fatherland" The german soldiers did He only listened the first yes man he could find

[@EricTorrens-dx1qr]

Yes the German troops did sacrifice their lives but the kaiser sacrificed his honor and reputation for a war that he wasn’t in charge of. The kaiser was only a figure and could only watch as the mistakes of his generals were blamed on him

[@fiorinopizio4554]

@@EricTorrens-dx1qr he choose those generals And he could appoint new ones any moment And his honor is nothing compared to a human life

[@DarthPounder]

You speak as if you know. You don't. You think you know but you just have beliefs and opinions. Stick to facts.

[@DarthPounder]

​@@fiorinopizio4554right. Meanwhile you do what in the name of humanity? Make KZbin comments.

[@fiorinopizio4554]

@@DarthPounder i doubt that you doing something "in the name of humanity" either Like everyone else So shut up Also how is that related?

[@Astro_blitzs]

Kaiser Wilhelm ll is the last emperor of Germany

[@rabbaniazzahra1784]

he wasn't the emperor of germany he was the german emperor

[@JeromeValeska-zh9ji]

@Blaze2801-bh6cmEmperor of Prussia and German emperor but the difference makes more sense in German.

[@luzifershadres]

Nah, Franz Beckenbauer

[@baronbrummbar8691]

@@JeromeValeska-zh9ji he was king of Prussia ...... definitley not emperor

[@strangeman1822]

​@@baronbrummbar8691Just use Google kid. King of Prussia is an extra titel for the Hohenzollern

[@Vossfcn99]

Interesting that the Canadian actor pronounced the three German names almost spotless. I also like the general choice of English for that role. Not some fake cliché german accent but a generally british type with subtle "harder" pronunciation just like an older german man with really experienced and good English language skills would sound like...

[@robert48719]

I just noticed Christopher Plummer really does have some resemblance to Kaiser Wilhelm

[@lsu1992]

No wonder his son Soze was such an angry man.

[@tubekulose]

Ah, now I get it. You mean "Söze". 😂

[@lsu1992]

@@tubekulose ...and he showed these "men of will" what will really was.

[@iqjohnny]

Otto von bismark said-" that 20 years after my dead the empire will decline" the german empire colapse in 1918, bismark was off for 4 months

[@baronbrummbar8691]

well Bismarck was a loud moth and he was one of the main reasons it did collapse ........... he forged an Empire with the sword but tried to unite it whit the whip and that failed his demotion was justefied but he just gave up instead of taking the role of foreign minister

[@unfreezedfreezer9455]

Only to rise again for a few terrible years, then collapse and split in less than a thousand years unlike what the sacred painter had said. And then unite again to become a financially developed country.

[@Vang-tt1xh6xc1i]

“They lost me my country”

[@thomasjamson3994]

He did absolutely nothing , the real person behind Germany was Otto Von Bismarck. Think how he might have felt

[@TyreseSummers]

Yep Otto von Bismarck made Germanys unification possible and made sure that it would be one of the great powers. And warned kaiser willhelm about the war he was starting and he ignored him.

[@benwinkler-kt4hh]

Das kann nicht sein bismark starb 16 jahre bevor der erste weltkrieg begann

[@saftmelone3267]

He sure did but he never saw it happen becouse he was dead 16 years before the war would had started

[@John.McMillan]

He did a lot. He did help Germany. He just disagreed with Bismarck on many topics and that led to his dismissal.

[@John.McMillan]

​@@TyreseSummers Wilhelm didn't start the war, so it's damn hard for Bismarck to warn about a war that wasn't started by Wilhelm almost 20 years before it even happened.

[@JackTheTr0ll]

I may not know much about this but one thing I can tell that he is just a human fighting for what he believes. But lost something that is precious

[@karbythekirby_yt]

"They lost me, my country" hits hard honestly.

[@BRBIMZZ]

ГРУСТЬ ЭТО ТО, КОТОРОЕ ВЫЗЫВАЕТ СЕРДЕЧНУЮ БОЛЬ 😔😔

[@OtherDAS]

Maybe when Austria-Hungary was asking them about how good their alliance against Russia was if they started trouble he should have told them to be cautious instead of giving them a blank check saying whatever they choose to do he was fine with it. That and not firing Otto von Bismark who kept Europe on balance and Germany safe.

[@hellsreighn5570]

The blank check was the only thing they could have done they warned the Austrians and did say to be cautious and careful but the old man in Austria wanted WAR and demanded assurance from Germany that they would assist

[@2packrm781]

What😶😦😧😧😧??!? & I'm sorry for being the odd ball out, but may you help walk me through the process of what exactly happened, from you guys, please?

[@water1374]

@@hellsreighn5570 So obviously the lesson is "Don't promise absolute support to psychopaths"

[@OtherDAS]

@@2packrm781 Before going to War with Russia Austria-Hungary checked with Germany (Prussia) is they would back them if they stood up to Russia when they took Serbia. Wihelm then took a cruise. Austria takes Serbia. Russia goes to War with Austria. So Germany goes to War with Russia. They ask France if they will remain neutral if they go to war with Russia. France says as a Great Power they will do as they wish. Basically going to war with Germany -- but making it Germany's fault. So Germany invades France via the Low Countries. Making the Britain go to war (as they have historically always done) to protect them. Poof WW1. If only Wihelm had told Austria-Hungary don't do something stupid or your on your own.

[@dylanisdylan5578]

Great movie, absolutely great, nothing else to say. JUST GREAT.

[@Augusto-dn3sj]

Boah, alter Schwede was für ein unglaublich tolles Video❤

[@Bombi-mo7taram]

We got a kalser wilheim edit before gta6 ☠️

[@Alen-Xp]

that man i love him great man

[@GUYGUY_idk]

Its really sad how the Allies didn't put the blame into Austria for starting the war and instead blaming a man who could've made the Empire stronger

[@airtonpalomino2603]

Read history mate, it was actually serbians

[@GUYGUY_idk]

@@airtonpalomino2603 oh thnx, although I know this information its still good to remind me of such. Thnx again

[@DFGHJKLÖÄDFGHJKLÖ]

and 21 years later the rest of Europe had to pay for the Allies` arrogance

[@cathoderay305]

The Kaiser was Prussian and Prussia led the German Empire. After World War 1, the Kaiser was pushed from power. After World War 2, the Allies dismembered Prussia.

[@zhangzy123]

Nikomu to " imperium " nie było potrzebne .

[@PatrickHildebrandt]

WE AS Germans have to stand Up again and Bring our countrys Back to older glory and new shine

[@KansasCityChiefsFan82]

My great great great grandpa was in WWI and was the that was in the Battle of St.Mhinel in France in October 11 of 1917 he was in the 22nd US Marine Corps and survived a artillery strike 2 times

[@DoktorDoof-c6u]

lets say he didnt know better.

[@Radishindependent]

if they had not dethroned him, the 'fuhrer' would be a term not heard of

[@harryrobinson260]

If he wasn’t in power in the first place, WW1 wouldn’t be as bad as it was

[@Radishindependent]

@@harryrobinson260 he's the one who was lied to by his army chief of staff that belgium had agreed to let germans pass through, he's the one who tried to stop hindenburg from restarting unrestricted submarine warfare, he's also the one who was toppled over by ludendorf and hindenburg in late 1917-ish so that they could do what they wanted with the country. which is why he curses them out in the video because they betrayed him. and he was on vacation when things were escalating towards ww1 and the OLH was the one that gave austria hungary the go ahead for war.

[@neiretzlik4337]

​@@Radishindependent Brother wrote a fanfic and tries to sell it as historical facts.

[@hellsreighn5570]

@@harryrobinson260no that is completely false the war was coming regardless of what people say it was a powder keg ready to light Wilhelm or not it’s would have been devastating if not more so but we will never know

[@Svea_LifeGuards]

​@@harryrobinson260you do know that Germany did not start the war right a Serbian ultranationalist shot the Austrian emperor

[@worldofwords3905]

Bismarck may have been a good diplomat but he was terrible when it came to domestic matters. Similar to Churchill in that regards. Bismarck didn’t want to give workers’ rights, maternity leave, and didn’t support social welfare. He even put forward a proposal to get rid of the socialist party and stamp out social reforms. It was Kaiser Wilhelm II that wanted to give workers’ rights and social benefit and welfare. Bismarck was a bully. He usually threatened to resign if things didn’t go his way and that usually worked under Wilhelm’s predecessor but when Wilhelm called Bismarck’s bluff he was left scrambling. Wilhelm was a good ruler. He didn’t want war. He didn’t want an expansive colonial empire. Wilhelm wanted to rearm the navy because he admired the British and wished to emulate them. He wanted to uplift the fatherland and be remembered as a good emperor.

[@THE_German_Empire]

George, Wilhelm, and Nicholas.. the siblings that couldn't end the war. Fun fact they were all cousins because of Queen Victoria

[@Munchkino]

Bruv he was a terrible diplomat too lol

[@ryack6355]

The communists were worth stamping out when you look at Russia in 1917 and Germany in 1918. Ultimately Wilhelm was an absolute failure. He set out to gain an alliance with Britain, and ended up turning British support against himself. When things went wrong he blamed everyone but himself. He was warned that a 2 front war would be difficult, and he rushed into it. Moreover, he invaded Belgium and pulled the entire British empire into the war, if he hadn't have done that he might have had a shot at victory, but no, this idiot has to shoot himself in the foot at EVERY SINGLE TURN. He even cancelled his alliance with Russia, then throwing Russia into the arms of the French. He was the most stupid and self centred German leader to ever exist

[@ryack6355]

The communists were worth stamping out when you look at Russia in 1917 and Germany in 1918. Ultimately Wilhelm was an absolute failure. He set out to gain an alliance with Britain, and ended up turning British support against himself. When things went wrong he blamed everyone but himself. He was warned that a 2 front war would be difficult, and he rushed into it. Moreover, he invaded Belgium and pulled the entire British empire into the war, if he hadn't have done that he might have had a shot at victory, but no, this idiot has to shoot himself in the foot at EVERY SINGLE TURN. He even cancelled his alliance with Russia, then throwing Russia into the arms of the French. He was the most stupid and self centred German leader to ever exist

[@shitabjohanmollickszhw2345]

​@@THE_German_EmpireGeorge Won, Wilhelm lost, Nicholas died

[@johnnytheyoungmaestro]

"Where were they? Where were they? WHERE WERE THEY?!?!" Wow, what a quote. Very passionate acting in this scene. :)

[@umercool11]

im a big fan of kaiser i understood everything expect him screaming. Now I understand

[@rasmusdorner8115]

Noch ein echter Mann

[@RTHISTORY]

There's a tiredness in me that no amount of rest could touch. Abraham Lincoln

[@SailorGerry]

The great Canadian actor Christopher Plummer, who also portrayed the Duke of Wellington in the movie "Waterloo" (1970).

[@KohakuNachtfalke]

I am not German but their history is something to be remembered, there are people who wanted peace amidst those times of war, but some people only saw the damage it dealt, there are true heroes among those soldiers sailors and pilots

[@SpookyScarySkitarii]

They were warmongers in the second part of the XIXth century

[@bachtruongson9408]

"Ludendorff's attack was an order!"

[@thomashaeyen6942]

"Your majesty, Ludendorff is currently having a mental breakdown."

[@toton1514]

Bismarck knew the Germany would be doomed if the French, British and Russian became alliances. He told Kaiser to isolate France not the other way around.

[@Bert490]

I never thought this song would fit to a special forces edit. You just did the impossible 🔥

[@Strange_man1899]

Me when nobody wants to hop on helldivers and we lose the major order

[@kromsukit]

FK sony fk the way they treated japanese + 100+ other countries gamers and FK their cyber security’s

[@Therealjubjubempore-cy2ny]

Heil Kaiser thanks for your work we all care