The Last German Emperor, Living in Exile in The Netherlands 1918-1941

The Last German Emperor, Living in Exile in The Netherlands 1918-1941
Wilhelm II or William II (German: Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; English: Frederick William Victor Albert) (27 January 1859 -- 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia, ruling the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918. He was a grandson of the British Queen Victoria and related to many monarchs and princes of Europe. Crowned in 1888, he dismissed the Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, in 1890 and launched Germany on a bellicose "New Course" in foreign affairs that culminated in his support for Austria-Hungary in the crisis of July 1914 that led to World War I. Bombastic and impetuous, he sometimes made tactless pronouncements on sensitive topics without consulting his ministers, culminating in a disastrous Daily Telegraph interview that cost him most of his power in 1908. His generals dictated policy during World War I with little regard for the civilian government. An ineffective war leader, he lost the support of the army, abdicated in November 1918, and fled to exile in the Netherlands.
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[@Garbeaux.]

I have a soft spot for Wilhelm. He was made to be the bad guy out of the war but Austria was to blame. Fun fact: Huis Doorn, the place he called home in the Netherlands during exile, was the house Audrey Hepburn’s mother grew up in before it was sold to him.

[@rosesprog1722]

And Audrey ended up helping the resistance during the war, a very courageous young lady.

[@CandaceChira1]

Agreed. He took the blame for a lot that truly wasn't his fault.

[@Ronald-ks2iy]

Wilhelm was envious of the Russian, British & French’s great empires. He leapt at the chance to wage war on them. The Austrians went to him for his backing with their offensive against Serbia and he agreed. He knew that Serbia was allied with Russia who were allied with the French so backing the Austrian offensive would plunge the continent into war. He also invaded neutral Belgium knowing full well that it would draw the British into the conflict. At the end of the war when revolution broke out in Germany he commanded his generals to have the troops open fire on the people. It was at that point when his generals informed him that the German military were no longer going to take orders from him and that he and his son the crown Prince should abdicate. Also when Austria wanted an armistice with the alliances Germany contemplated declaring war on Austria! The Kaiser should of had the sense to stay out of the Austrian conflict with Serbia knowing the costs but he engaged anyway.

[@Napolean45]

@@Ronald-ks2iy Germans love war 😂😂

[@swatinmates8828]

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[@danielmp2085]

I went to Doorn. Sadly the nose of the Kaisers statue at the beginning of the video is broken now. I highly recomend to anybody visiting (or living) in the Netherlands to go there. The volunteers who run the place are very kind and do great tours around the house and Wilhelms rooms. The only problem is that you cannot visit the interior of the Kaisers mausoleum unless you have an authorization from the Hohenzollern family.

[@tabby5228]

I always find it a bit sweet that regardless of how much he disliked his parents, he always loved and respected his grandmother.

[@napoleonplayz7302]

he was close to his dad to

[@Chuck0856]

@@napoleonplayz7302 NO, he had contempt for him.

[@lydiamalone1859]

He loved her power.

[@Infomensch]

This little documentary shows more respect to the Kaiser than any one report ever aired on german TV. Thanks for that.

[@robertneven7563]

manta manta you are ride , war is not a solution

[@heartoftenacity1479]

Manta Manta He was the last nation to call in his forces how could it be his fault . If you actually read the nick and will telegrams you would know this you fool.

[@Infomensch]

Manta Manta: absoluter Unsinn. Kaiser Wilhelm war - entgegen der populären sozialistischen Meinung im Land - nicht für den Krieg verantwortlich. Zumindest nicht ein Jota mehr, als irgendein anderer Mitspieler im Stück. Aber was red ich, antideutsche Ressentiments vom eigenen verkorksten Volk sind ja heutzutage modern.

[@davidviner4932]

He was filth, they should have executed him

[@thatdutchguy2882]

Infomensch He didn't deserve respect,....and he was a very ungracious guests of his cousin Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Wilhelmina van Oranje-Nassau Queen of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and all its foreign territories, Head of the House of Oranje-Nassau, Princes of Orange, Princes of Nassau, Grand-Dutches of Antwerpen, etc, etc, etc, etc.

[@davidlarge4732]

king george king of england was asked by his russian relatives for asylum and he turned them down ,the reds then butcherd them.

[@Yozie__mrhjb9703]

Great work by the reds. Imagine if poms had that type of courage to get rid of parasites.

[@martincook318]

Yes I agree with you in Regards to the Russian Royal family and that was Criminal but King George V was listening to the advice from his Ministers and a lot of European Countries also Refused to Grant the Russian Royal family Political asylum so you carn't blame H.M King George V although he was Partly to blame for what happened to his Cousin and his family and what Kaiser Willhelm the Second did was far worse in 1914 and let Me ask you a Question if Kaiser Willhelm the Second was that Popular how come only Adolf Hitler went to his former King's Funeral in 1941 no I don't care what anyone says the Kaiser was Responsible for World war one and no one else because of his Greed and Ruthless and both he and Adolf Hitler blamed the Jews on Germany's down fall

[@pbrooks1]

​@@martincook318 Every major participant in WW1 carries some blame for starting the war including the one country that so far has escaped public blame entirely-that is the USA. France and Britain were the principle culprits. France was thirsting for revenge for their humiliation in 1870. Britain wanted to destroy a rival that was rapidly overtaking it in every sphere. Germany had every reason to fear the enemies surrounding it. There is abundant evidence that since Teddy Roosevelt's presidency, American Industrialists, Financiers, and Politicians were planning for a war with the British Empire. The American Military had 'Operation Red' tentatively scheduled for around 1922. Instead, America cleverly exploited all the great European Powers and their vanities, thereby taking all of them out as potential competitors in one fell swoop. To this day American diplomatic cables for that era are classified, but some of them did fall into the hands of Belligerents when European countries collapsed and captured Foreign Ministry records opened in the second world war-enough to make it clear what was afoot. Before he died Neville Chamberlain made it clear that he blamed America for playing the same game in 1939. Read the Life of Joseph Kennedy, Roosevelt's Ambassador to Britain. Kennedy disliked the British, but he also distrusted Roosevelt and was candid about many things that are not spoken about today.

[@barrytooley6724]

@@martincook318 That’s one hell of a long sentence. Punctuation would make it a lot easier to read

[@Bream243]

@@pbrooks1 Really? Is it just possible that Serbia and Austria had something to do with starting this war?

[@keithwaites9991]

He was Queen Victoria 's favourite. ..he held her in his arms as she died in 1901.

[@Garbeaux.]

Supposedly. Like many have said before, including his own family, it’s not like she would have been able to protest while on her death bed.

[@wendyqallab6906]

Contract to some statements Victoria's children did not like him. He was very mean to his mother just a angry mean guy.

[@lukkyluciano]

We(the allies) were a little heavy handed on Germany after WW1. We should bear some responsibility for Hitler rising because the Treaty of Versailles made such an environment where they would look to a guy like that for leadership. We humiliated the Germans.

[@Gesundheit888]

+lukkyluciano Germany had basically won WW1 in 1916 and offered a peace treaty to France and England without restrictions. The boarders would have been restored to where they were before WW1 and neither France nor England would have to pay any war reparations. Germany had also treated the prisoners of war very kindly and payed them wages for the duration while incarcerated. The Balfour Declaration changed all of that.

[@raydrake9151]

Plus the Germans had absolutely won the war in the east against Russia.

[@stuartjenkins3039]

Lukkyluciano, utter bollocks. The Treaty of Versailles was FAR more lenient to the Germans than they deserved. If you want an example of a genuinely humiliating treaty, you need look no further than that imposed by Germany on Russia in 1917.

[@nickolascrossland2635]

lukkyluciano we should bear a lot of responsibility and germany could have and should have won ww1

[@jeanetteyork2582]

lukkyluciano...how can we have "humiliated the Germans" when it was their generals who sued for peace?

[@Magnetron33]

Nicely done! thank you! His GrandMother, Queen Victoria, was the glue holding Europe to gether in those days. Once she was gone, the decline and elimination of Monarchies was inevitable.She was related to almost all other Monarchs of the day.Saw recently, Wilhelm was Victorias favorite Grandson.He was said to be the only one present when she passed on.

[@Mankindatwar]

Monarchies were eliminated by freemasons and LN

[@lray1948]

@@Mankindatwar A freenason named George Washington did his bit to strike a blow against monarchy.

[@Chuck0856]

They were wrong.

[@frederiquecouture3924]

Mon chat me griffe la...

[@SymphonyBrahms]

Her English grandson, the future George V, was there.

[@jjinphilajjinphila]

An absolutely remarkable film. Thank you. I was very surprised that Wilhelm no longer hid his withered arm.

[@40ounce58]

Nice documentary. Interesting how his former comrades in there old age were wearing the old helmets and uniforms from ww1 at the Kieser’s funeral.

[@rfe8nn2]

Did they say he disliked the Nazi symbol and only saw the Iron cross as the only symbol of his Germany?

[@40ounce58]

@@rfe8nn2 yes. Hitler didn’t really care for him mostly. Wilhelm thought the monarchy was going to rise from the ashes.

[@frederiquecouture3924]

Interdits?

[@MrJoeybabe25]

This is a really great video. I appreciate the work that went into it. However, using the white lettering for sub-titles sometimes makes it hard to read.

[@StephenChallen]

The First World War was triggered off by a Balkan incident, which got out of hand, and everyone reacted wrong. The fact that Germany reacted wrong does not exonerate everyone else and it is not fair to scapegoat the last German Emperor.

[@StephenChallen]

to eeuplad Thank you very much. Kind Regards. Stephen

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to Daniel Thank you very much. Kind Regards. Stephen

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to John Prickitt Thank you very much. Kind Regards. Stephen

[@StephenChallen]

to Floris De Vries Thank you very much. Kind Regards. Stephen

[@TeamCanada531]

What the kaiser would think of Germany today disgraceful

[@doliague2590]

yes

[@bigburd875]

Braeden Hendrick Loe he probably thought that it was awful the second he was kicked out by hindinburg, remember he was an autocrat, so he hated the republic, he probably hated hitler because hitler was not of noble birth, and if he lived long enough, he would probably hate west Germany and east Germany for the exact same reasons he hated the republic

[@ottomeyer6928]

He would die a second time

[@budscroggins2632]

I grew up in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.. we have a statue of the Kaiser (Frederick)

[@heartoftenacity1479]

He would be happy the country was able to survive what the allies did to it and become the powerhouse of Europe . Fools like you know nothing of autocracies and the opinions of the Kaiser so please don't disrespect a dead mans legacy with your heresy .

[@shortorbaldlover]

An interesting part of history and the life of Kaiser Bill that is so often ignored! Thank you for posting this wonderfully interesting piece!

[@8-bitworldwonder787]

Fantastic Work! Thank you very much. I haven't seen such an informative documentry for a while now. Did you make it yourself, gathering all the data and informations? It surly lacks the computer reconstructions and actors the nowadays docu's have, but it has something unique they don't have, it's only about facts and isn't presenting a peacocky presenter or just stating opinions to us. This is very interesting, indeed.

[@warywolfen]

The "Wood-chopper of Doorn" ? There is no dishonor in being called a wood-chopper. I believe Abraham Lincoln was known by a similar moniker!

[@gaminawulfsdottir3253]

Rail-splitter.

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

Indeed.

[@DavBlc7]

Well, there was another nickname for him by us Brits, we called him "Kaiser Bill" during the First World War. Our government want him brought for trail after the war but the Dutch refused.

[@krismakardikan9823]

@ Meneer Van dijk: Upon brief reflection, there are so many levels to this subtext. Without knowing much more than what appears under Clyde Wary's post, I think she (the queen of the Netherlands) may have been suggesting that it was shameful or disgraceful for the former Kaiser to now be doing manual labour. This reflects the profound disconnectedness of the "leisure class". I'm pleased to learn the man was not above rolling up his shirtsleeves and getting his hands dirty putting in an honest day's hard work. I find myself wondering what sort of place the operatic world would have turned out to be if it came to light that the barber of Seville was, in fact, a marqués...

[@lray1948]

I read a bio of Gladstone once and his Dr. told him to chop wood and cut trees on his Hawarden estate to get exercise. Evidently it was the exercise of choice in late 1800s and early 1900s.

[@Quasimodo1957]

Terrific archival footage! Thanks for posting.

[@ruthanneschnell9815]

Kaiser Wilhelm II was greatly surprised that after inviting his extended royals to his daughter's wedding and celebrating together that he should receive notice from them that they were at war. What an astonishing level of insincerity.

[@lydiamalone1859]

Well it's much more complicated than that. Wilham pretty much sucker punched his cousin the czar.

[@Spartiatai300]

How do Germans feel about returning the position of kaiser in a constitutional monarchy? To replace the president (who has the same role apparantly without the good parts monarchy brings)

[@kentamitchell]

A Royalist restoration after 96 years? Not going to happen.

[@Spartiatai300]

KentA Mitchell The royal familly is still around so I don´t see why not. Surely a monarchy is far more suited to the jobs the current president has.

[@Spartiatai300]

JimmyJimJaJim History and culture, along with the other economical/diplomatical advantages that a monarchy provides over a president.

[@kentamitchell]

Spartiatai300 I'd say the chances of that happening are slim to none- and Slim is out of town.

[@contrabbasso76]

It is also my opinion that a restoration would be impossible. 1. Federal governments are not typically overthrown by or voted out in favor of monarchies. Not saying it would never happen, but 99% certainty is good enough for me. 2. Prince Georg Friedrich (the heir to the throne) does not want to be a German monarch. He seems content with his semi private life and probably realizes the difficulties of trying to...well...overthrow the federal government. 3. Too many firsts. A German monarch has never ruled over the current German borders. The Kaiser was and old school Prussian at heart and not a constitutional monarch. He also was not King of Germany. That's a title that hasn't been used since the Holy Roman Empire, and was NEVER used by a Hohenzollern. Why would it be a problem to begin using that title for a Prussian prince? Hmm, ask any Habsburg.

[@Px828]

Thank you for posting. I had no idea of this part of history.

[@mojeo522]

Such shame blaming him for ww1 alone. Now seeing him working in his little farm broke my heart. Such a admirable gentleman

[@SymphonyBrahms]

Nothing to admire. He was a selfish, spoiled, petty little man who was responsible for much suffering of the soldiers and civilians during WW I.

[@sa1lmaa]

@@SymphonyBrahms what a lie youre definitely one of those people brainwashed by allied propganda

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

Germany did not start world war one remember, and remember the Netherlands were neutral, and England was a country that had just committed the most horrific war crimes against the South Africans, so not popular here...

[@DonMeaker]

Wim V Germany did start WWI by its declaration of war on Russia, and by its invasion of neutral Belgium.

[@Spartiatai300]

DonMeaker Wrong. I'd suggest a visit to the wiki. Germany was supporting Austria-Hungary.

[@DonMeaker]

Spartiatai300 Look carefully at the dates when Germany declared war on Russia. Russia had not attacked nor declared war on Austria Hungary. Germany declared war on Peaceful Russia.

[@Spartiatai300]

DonMeaker Nope. Was a big mobilization happening which couldn't be stopped. (From Austria-Hungary and Russia) Real culprit of the war was the terrorists who attacked the Austrian prince (who was very progressive!), after that Serbia for defending the terrorist attack and then Austria. Germany was simply aiding their ally. Just because one guy is bigger doesn't mean he is always responsible in a fight.

[@DonMeaker]

Spartiatai300 Except Serbia didn't defend the terrorist attack. They actually went most of the way to agreeing to Austria Hungary's ultimatum. Of course the Ultimatum was written so that noone could agree with it because Austria Hungary wanted war. Germany was in a defensive alliance with Austria Hungary. They were not required to back Austria Hungary if the latter invaded, and the other party to that treaty, Italy, indeed didn't. Germany wasn't aiding their ally, they were using events as an excuse for what they wanted.

[@franceleeparis37]

When I lived in Holland, I always wondered why so many roads and places were named Wilhelm strasse or Wilhelm platz..... now I know

[@shreyasbhatawadekar5351]

Wilhelm is a very common name. Many Dutch people might have gone by the same name.

[@franceleeparis37]

Shreyas Bhatawadekar ... and your point is? ... Smith is a common name in England but don’t see many roads named Smith... roads and squares are named after famous people... something that seems to have gone over your head..

[@kostasmisa2380]

They're actually named in honour of Wilhelm I, a great historical figure in Dutch, and played a great role in Dutch colonialism and the Dutch republic's rise as the greatest naval force of the 17th century.

[@lraaijman1710]

@@shreyasbhatawadekar5351 In Dutch we spell that name as "Willem" though

[@tellodoroteos5976]

The poor man..all he had to endure..

[@restoredempire8360]

Why do people compare him to Hitler or call him a mass murderer?

[@nickolascrossland2635]

Restored Empire because they are mislead

[@restoredempire8360]

Nickolas crossland very true.

[@nickolascrossland2635]

Restored Empire thank you for knowing the truth

[@johndavis8669]

They are stupid.

[@restoredempire8360]

John Davis right you are.

[@thegreatone921]

Rest in Peace my Kaiser!

[@doliague2590]

said kindly I salute you!

[@gloriouskaiser6610]

TheModest Man thank you

[@gogolplexXxX]

Mass murderer? If the Kaiser was a mass murderer every other head of state who could have prevented the war was also one. The fact that the british ambassador deceived the Kaiser to prevent a stop of the mobilization of the german army and the french primeminister convinced the Tsar to mobilize his army and to stop negotiations with his cousin Kaiser Wilhelm. I think british and french war mongers should be blamed as mass murderers.

[@thebullmoose8316]

ZebsFrend Exactly. He isn't a mass murderer.

[@dm2781632]

TheModest Man I

[@kaiserwilliamll5280]

Who else thinks Germany will be far more better today if it was still a monarchy?

[@rejectedkermit1220]

It would be better than what it is today at least

[@huntingthekaiser6490]

They should have let the Crown Prince take the throne. He didn't have an inflated ego like his father, developed into a good commander during the war once he learned the ropes, and had the allegiance and respect of his fellow veterans. "Little Willie" might have stifled the insanity of the Weimar Republic and circumvented Hitler. The powers-that-be learned their lesson 20 years later--they let Hirohito stay on the throne in 1945 to keep the lid on Japan.

[@haroldwilson5246]

Kaiser William ll Who thinks the world would be better without kings n queens ??

[@huntingthekaiser6490]

In 1918 and 1945 the need for figureheads was an important question, which it isn't today. At the same time, the recent rise of extreme popularism via the web of communications is frightening. A harbinger of mob rule through technology? :)

[@haroldwilson5246]

Jim Pauff Either way the so called rulers are still screwing everything up ! Reason =$$$$$$$$ power and the GOD thing of course is still used as a wonderful tool to incite hatred and excuses for wars. Nothing has changed since the first caveman picked up a rock and killed with it. The human species is a deadly virus.

[@ballaratboy1]

Germany hasn't had much luck with it's leaders

[@doliague2590]

true but under Kaiser Wilhelm the first we had much success.. I give respect to otto von Bismarck.

[@abc64pan]

In spite of this this bad look that you speak off, Germany sure turned out well. It's currently the richest and most dominant country in Europe. If you want a country which really hasn't had much luck, think Poland.

[@JokahFACE]

1933 to around 1942 was pretty good.

[@VR-fd8qs]

Yeah they have that cunt Merkel. Trying to destroy Europe 3rd time in a span of 100years

[@Exodon2020]

We had a lot of bad leaders but also a fair share of brilliant ones like Otto von Bismarck, Gustav Stresemann (managed to bring Germany back to the international stage - as a partner, not an enemy) and to some degree Konrad Adenauer (doing the same as Stresemann before him plus managing to fully reconsiliate with France - while France had a blatant Anti-German in charge)

[@annaleebrazel9967]

Thank you great footage

[@geoffarnold2394]

My lack of historical knowledge arises from the fact that the victors write the history, so i have been fed the British line. You have perhaps been fed the partisan line and the truth will perhaps never been known.

[@bigburd875]

Geoff Arnold what do you want to know? I know an awful lot and whatever I don't know I try and figure out, ask away

[@BR0984]

Teddy Roosevelt please tell me the cause of WWI

[@krismakardikan9823]

I've heard it said that the truth, perhaps, lies somewhere in the middle. ~shrug~ Dunno; just sayin'.

[@joalexsg9741]

Thank you so much for this documentary!

[@ricardo53100]

It is ironic that the man who contributed more than the other leaders (many of them his relatives) came out the best for a leader who ended being on the losing side. The former Russian Tsar and his entire family butchered by communists, the former Austrian Emperor and King of Hungary Karl died a young man in his Madeira exile but Kaiser Bill lived a life of luxury and had plenty of money. The minor restrictions on his liberty were nothing compared to the harm that his decisions caused. Had he not foolishly given his blank check support to the ageing Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungry there would have been no WWI. Our entire 20th century would have been changed. No Nazism and no Communism. Thus no WWII and Holocaust on the one hand and the ruining of Russia and the loss of 30m to 40m people. One man with too much power and too little wisdom and self-restraint was all it took to give the disaster that we knew as the first half of the 20th century. May God have mercy on his soul.

[@waltertaljaard1488]

The tragedy of a good man who got involved in a profoundly evil and insane war..

[@alaninmcr]

josefina bananos That does not make him a bad man though. A basic problem was that the political systems of some (all?) the great powers allowed stupid and vain men to make world-changing decisions simply because of who their parents were.

[@Egerwer]

+josefina bananos Kaiser Wilhelm II may have been vain, but far from stupid. He was actually very well educated. The atrocities brought about during WWI or the "Great War" was primarily due to political scandal and secret societies, such as the Black Hand that had instigated the event in the first place with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. A lot of conspiracy if you ask me.........

[@Jurgen_Ibro]

+Egerwer It is called just Zionism

[@Egerwer]

Jurgen Ibro Zoinism? And what does Zoinism have to do with Kaiser Wilhelm II!? And why would they force him to abdicate!? He was related to King David according to his own family records........

[@Egerwer]

HBB Yes, I know! The person above mine said that it was. Kaiser Wilhelm II should have stayed in power though; if he did, then Hitler would never have made the scene.

[@erwinbreyson]

A very tragic story, you came from something, you end up with nothing.

[@lol-tonyandbillynoobgames7072]

Wow he looked so different after 1 year of living in exile.

[@lray1948]

He didn't waste any time in starting a new life, especially after his wife died and he married a woman half his age "over the objections of his children." Ha

[@jezalb2710]

What exile? He flee Germany. Like a rat

[@SymphonyBrahms]

He looked rich and safe, in comparison to the millions of people that he was responsible for sending to their deaths in the war.

[@danielgoutovets8897]

Rest In Peace, honorable man! May God be with you.

[@jezalb2710]

Honourable? In what way?

[@SymphonyBrahms]

He was not honorable. He was a warmonger.

[@michaelahern6821]

What is the name of the tune...could anyone tell me plz...?

[@tombkings6279]

well then, I guess that's another Great empire gone.

[@jackket6708]

Yes. Two great empires dissapeared from Earth after they lost the wars. German empire was gone after WWI. And Japanese empire was dissolved after WWII.

[@trojanette8345]

Why were the (distance) travel restrictions put on Kaiser Wilhelm?

[@TGoodman]

You'll notice in the pictures and videos, the Kaiser oftentimes is seen holding his left arm, or having it bent slightly, holding a cane for example, or some other prop. This is due to the fact that his left arm was shorter than the right, a fact about which he was always self-conscious, even in his later years.

[@Number-py1bs]

Non germans shall not judge him. It’s our kaiser. We handle it alone. He did a bad job in the war. But still he is the Kaiser and left the Reich without destruction. He loved his people. And if we don’t respect our kaiser, we have nothing to respect.

[@scanida5070]

Er soll seine Landsleute geliebt haben? Der Depp war Hitzköpfig, übermutig und total arrogant! Viele seiner Minister haben ihm empfohlen eine Allianz mit Britannien anzustreben aber nein! Er baut lieber einpaar dicke fette Schiffe statt freundlicher zu agieren... Und allein schon dass er Deutschland einfach feige verlassen hat statt sich seinem Schicksal zu stellen ist Grund genug um ihn zu hassen! Ein Kapitän geht mit seinem Schiff unter!

[@claudermiller]

seems to me austria-hungary was to blame. germany ended up being held accountable because france and england feared german industry and knew germany would soon rise to become a great power.

[@postscript67]

Notice the desk seat at 7:19. He liked to work in the saddle. I saw a similar seat at his desk in his former palace in Corfu.

[@GuyPennebaker]

Hm cant help but to feel bad for the old boy

[@Infomensch]

You're much more of a disgrace, blackzed.

[@penpenbrady]

blackzed what has he done? He helped an ally, and there's no solid proof he started WW1.

[@MrDaiseymay]

@blackzed excellent, nothing to add.

[@MrDaiseymay]

@@Infomensch prick

[@Kuriko777]

@blackzed Then ALL leaders that involved in the Great War were much as guilty as Wilhelm II. No Soldiers and civilians asked for this pointless war except them.

[@TheAlbionwarrior]

Very good; I thought the soundtrack fitted in perfectly, and nice selection of pictures. Bravo.

[@mna9211]

RIP Kaiser.

[@bobbaldwin984]

How beautifully composed . Thankyou

[@rickj895]

very good little movie I enjoyed it !

[@bar10ml44]

I found this fascinating. Completely unaware of his exile. At one point watching this I thought I was looking at a shot of Edward the VII.

[@jezalb2710]

He was not exiled. He fled like a rat.

[@davidjarvis6411]

Remarkable story

[@jonathanbywater2063]

Brilliant and fascinating video. Thanks fr posting this.

[@slotuck]

I'd love to visit Huis Doorn one day...Did you know Huis Doorn property used to belong to actress Audry Hepburn's Grandmother ?

[@Simonsvids]

Easily done on a weekend break from the UK

[@humanitas559]

Excellent! Many thanks for uploading this :o)

[@malcolmwatt4866]

Think of this: He outlived all his rivals. Nicholas II, Edward VII, and George V.

[@DaveGIS123]

Wilhelm's left arm was shorter than his right arm. To compensate, he often held his left arm tight to his side, or put his left hand inside a pocket, or tucked an object under his arm to disguise how short it was. You can see how he did this in many shots of him in this video. To a proud man like Wilhelm, having a physical imperfection, even such an insignificant one as this, made him insecure and he tried to hide it.

[@adrianlarkins7259]

I have read many of the comments and feel I should add my own as I have studied the life and mental attitude of "Kaiser Bill" His childhood was hell. Born with a withered shrunken arm, he was put through physical torture trying to correct it. This gave him an inferiority complex which clashed with his status as a future head of state. He grew up being highly jealous of the British Empire especially the Royal Navy. As an adult, be became arrogant and hot tempered which, as the Kaiser, made him a political time bomb, especially after he sacked Bismarck. Edward VII of England could not stand him AND Edward, despite his faults, was brilliant at foreign relations (Entente Cordial) When Austria decided to invade Serbia, the Kaiser gave military backing to Austria which had a chain reaction with all the treaties between the various nations. He knew this and refused to back down. It caused WW1 Many people say he was in the pockets of his generals. Sorry, he was the ultimate authority, especially in July/August 1914. He could have intervened but decided to allow events to unfold. To his dying day he showed no remorse. This is demonstrated by his telegram to Hitler congratulating him on his entry into Paris in 1940.

[@mtlicq]

hard to read text and look at details on a still photo that keeps zooming in or out, or panning some direction, especially when text is white and background is white, all so irritating !

[@hrhjrd6591]

The Kaiser didn't start the war, but he sure didn't do anything to stop it either.

[@toxicturtle9077]

The Willy-Nicky correspondence?

[@ottomeyer6928]

He said after the War "Das habe ich nicht gewollt".

[@rhysnichols8608]

He sent telegrams of negotiated peace offers to UK in 1915 and 16

[@jjrj8568]

the truth

[@rhysnichols8608]

M. DeV. No it’s nothing like that. Islamic state is a militant terror group but a peace offer from the German government is totally different. The documents are all online with some research as is Kaiser whilhelms private diary that clearly shows how much he wanted peace

[@nikolajpetroff]

What music you use in this video?

[@dr56073]

white was a bad color for the text.... just saying

[@hodor9851]

True, lol

[@davidcampbell3642]

Yes I couldn't read the texts properly.. Needs another colour.

[@here_we_go_again2571]

@@davidcampbell3642 Pale to medium blue would have worked with the B&W photography. I've seen both red and orange-red as well as neon green used to used with B&W photography that caused eye-ache when trying to read it.

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

Yup

[@blueindigo1000]

Yellow would be best

[@shanemike3070]

Good to see old footage like that still exists, alot of old film goes bad over time

[@franciscraft4999]

Excellent movie with Christopher Plummer, “The Exception”. All bout the exile.

[@beatyea5711]

just looked it up.....thank you!

[@sauronmordor7494]

ok

[@MrCarissa12]

Can u plz put the video back on

[@Gkm-]

Iam from india I respect him great man legend 👏

[@jezalb2710]

Respect him? For what?

[@Gkm-]

@@jezalb2710 everyone hates him because of ww1 but Germany was drawn into the conflict, because of events that happened in Austria/Serbia. The Kaiser wasn’t even prepared for war, he was on vacation, when the conflict started. Germany had nothing to gain from a war, because it made great strides forward in the economy, science and with social program for her people. He made every effort to avoid war, which can be read in the communications that took place.

[@jezalb2710]

@@Gkm- Keiser. He was insecure, miserable a person. The War was not inevitable.

[@StephenChallen]

Young Archivest Thank you very much. KInd regards. Stephen.

[@drpsionic]

He seems to have become a kindly old gentlemen in his last years.

[@ChrisBreemer]

Great video, thank you. I just wish you had not opted for white subtitles. Sometimes they are are hard to read. As to Wilhelm, I wonder if we was allowed to hunt on the estate in Doorn ? If not, perhaps his wood chopping hobby was a substitute for that ? The Royal Man has got to get his kicks somehow.

[@geoffarnold2394]

But he was aged 55 in 1914, (Born in Germany in 1859, to Germany's Frederick III and Victoria, Queen Victoria of England's eldest daughter, Kaiser Wilhelm served as emperor of Germany from 1888 until the end of World War). If you think that's old how can I trust your judgement on anything else? Does this sound familiar? "A month after the war began, Germany drew up some far-reaching war aims. French power would be broken, Belgium reduced to vassal status, and a colonial empire carved out in Africa and elsewhere. Mitteleuropa, a German-dominated customs union, would give Berlin economic hegemony". Thank heaven the UK voted Brexit!

[@MrDaiseymay]

Don't forget, the little known secret German Naval mapping, of the US coastal features (both Coasts ) with a invasion plan in mind. TRUE.

[@leifliltorp3277]

Would be nice if the films and pictures could be restored.!!!!

[@phtevlin]

His uncle (Edward VII of Great Britain) correctly described his nephew as a bully and a coward.

[@isaelhernandez4971]

Von Staufenberg King George V*

[@nickolascrossland2635]

phtevlin so was edward Vll

[@borussiagermania4089]

phtevlin I wouldn't exactly call a man a coward who's country almost singlehandedly defeated the global superpowers of Great Britain, France and Russia. If America didn't get involved Imperial Germany would have probably even won WW1.

[@aidie2311]

His descendants still live at the manor at present or has it become a museum?

[@daveyork0]

All your cousins came to laugh at you, Wilhelm :)

[@Eelybrecstendt]

Royal families lived and still live a life of opulence. Britian during the victorian era, starvation, diseases was rife. Millions died. The queens children have inherited large estates whilst employment is high etc.

[@socraticgadfly]

If we're going to apportion blame for WWI, let's say, while ignoring Gavrilo Princip as the proximate cause: 1. Apis, 25 percent; 2. Berchtold + Hötzendorf, 20 percent; 3. Austro-Hungarian Schlamperei, 15 percent; 4. The Serbian government's partial knowledge of the Black Hand, etc., 10 percent; 5. German pseudoconstitutionality, 10 percent; 6. Wilhelm II, 7.5 percent; 7. Nicholas II 7.5 percent; 8. Maurice Paleologue, 5 percent; 9. Sergei Sazonov, 5 percent; 10. The failure of the old, tottering "Concert of Europe" to rein in Serbia before this, 5 percent. Yes, that's 110 percent. WWI was "overdetermined." And, if you have to look up more than one of those names, you probably shouldn't be commenting in public too much about "the cause" of WWI.

[@socraticgadfly]

***** Given that the Black Hand wasn't folding up shop after June 28, and Pasic, and most the Serbian cabinet knew of their existence, and had some idea of what they were up to, if I upped Berchtold/Hotzendorf to 40 percent, I'd have to add the same amount more to the Serbian government.

[@socraticgadfly]

***** That's irrelevant, Serbia's size and lack of vision. As a book "The July Crisis" notes, the whole (dying-out) Concert of Europe was guilty of failure to rein in Serbia. Besides, what you call "lack of vision" I call "deliberately chosen second vision." It's in the Serbian cultural DNA, as far as I can tell, as 1990s events showed.

[@socraticgadfly]

@PowerdrillerPower First, as Bosnia 1990s showed, the Serbian "cockpit" of the former Yugoslavia had no problem passing suffering on to Bosniaks. Second, you need a better dictionary. The word "serf" comes from the Latin "servus." It has nothing to do with Serbia. The name "Serb" is related to the "Sorb" Slavic people of Brandenburg area. Third, on the etymology of "Slav," etymology isn't controlling of meaning., especially when you're trying to apply etymology in reverse. It actually, via Byzantine Greek, comes from some south Slavs, or proto-Slavs, name for themselves. The fact that the French "esclave" and eventually the English "slave" come from the word "Slav" has nothing to do with the fact of the word "Slav"'s derivation: foreigndispatches.typepad.com/dispatches/2004/10/slav_an_etymolo.html Fourth, through all of this, you're sounding more and more like a Serb apologist. So, per the other commenter, have YOU read Clark's "Sleepwalkers"? As someone sounding like a Serb apologist, you're starting to bespeak the "martyrdom" that's part of that Serb cultural DNA.

[@socraticgadfly]

***** 1. Puhleeze on who the Bosnians were, let alone pejorative language. 2. "Slave" and its equivalents meant a whole range of things before chattel slavery in the new world. Try doing some reading about that, too. 3. That by no means negates what I said. 4. More mythological bullshit. The Serbs were also imperialist toward other Slavs. And, if we're dividing on Catholic/Orthodox lines, before the Protestant Reformation, the Western civilization they were allegedly defending wasn't fully Western. I will give you a kudo for being an in-the-tank defender of Serbian myth, and probably of pan-Slavism, too. Don't bother responding further, because I'm no longer listening.

[@markpassehl6341]

+socraticgadfly a complete nonsense. The blame lies 100% with the UK -- Usury Kingdom. The power, wealth and ambitions (global control of all resources) of this essentially Anglo-Venetian oligarchy depended, and depends still, on the privilege of money creation in private hands, and the general secrecy of that unparalleled privilege. German finances were run differently (traditionally), and ergo more successfully, both for the state and community. This constant and almost annually increasing demonstration of the backwardness and degeneracy of the UK financial system had to be removed if the Anglo-Venetians were to prosper and indeed even survive. So it was arranged in the sleazy clubs and mansions of England both to induce a great war and above all to persist with it regardless of losses until the German model of honest administration of the industrial revolution and its enormous wealth potential were destroyed. To be replaced everywhere with this vampiric fraud of the most profound and abysmal privileges in human history, in the hands of a tiny clique of gangsters, masquerading as democracy.

[@StephenChallen]

Alvaro De Grandes Thank you very much. Kind regards. Stephen.

[@geoffarnold2394]

I can't help thinking that the Kaiser writing a blank cheque to The Emperor of Austria to start a little war in the Balkans meant he was arrogant and could only see one chess move ahead. Without an adult like Bismark looking after him he was an accident waiting to happen. Anyone wanting him back in power would be a sucker for punishment! Does anyone know why the Dutch government gave him exile? Was it because of the Boar war, the Dutch had good reason to stick two fingers up at the British who taught Hitler how to run concentration camps (26,000 Boar women and children died).

[@DutchDocuChannel]

Queen Wilhelmina had to give her nephew asylum because they were member of the Order of Saint John and it's one of the rules to take care of your members.

[@geoffarnold2394]

Dutch Docu Channel very prompt and impressive answer, thank you!

[@karljohn2145]

Wilhelm and Franz Joseph should have burnt Serbia to the ground, and why England, France, and the U.S. would have been on the side of the Serbs and Russia is beyond me.

[@Spartiatai300]

gordywestmids Horrible how you try to talk good the Boer people extermination that happened under the British invasion force. Why? Just for some gold mines. Nothing better then what the Germans did.

[@DutchDocuChannel]

josefina bananos The Dutch didn't want the Emperor, they disliked him, Wilhelmina had to take him in because they were member of the Order of St John, and members have to support each other, that's one of the rules.

[@geoffarnold2394]

Any idea why Churchill offered the Kaiser sanctuary in the UK during WW2? Was it to split the German Monarchists from the Nazi's for example?

[@soviet_tank_lover]

most likely or that the british royal family were cousins to the Kaiser

[@mountainguyed67]

Or it was a trick.

[@roodborstkalf9664]

To use him for PR and humiliate him a little bit.

[@touraneindanke]

His body is NOT in Doorn anymore ! Even on a tour at house Doorn they do not talk about that! Shame! Say it as it is! The kaiser is back in Berlin now.

[@kostasmisa2380]

...the Kaiser's coffin is in the mausoleum at Huis Doorn. He hasn't been buried actually, his coffin is above the ground, as he declared that "I will only be buried on German soil when the monarchy is re established"

[@Exodus26.13Pi]

Narrate and re-upload. Text too small anyway.

[@prussianthetyrant5360]

kaiser was a good man and still is to my standards

[@andrewpalframan4666]

Prussian the tyrant You clearly have no standards at all.

[@nickolascrossland2635]

Andrew Palframan why do you say that

[@nickolascrossland2635]

Prussian the tyrant but he didn't like jews so not too good in my opinion

[@sublimelyh70]

Nikolas crossland; most of Europe didn't like Jews. Anti-Semitism ran rampant throughout most of Europe back in the day; whether it was subversive or more overt...

[@nickolascrossland2635]

sublimelyh70 i know but I still don't like it

[@ryanwindsor2407]

His first wife wasn't even cold in her grave and he got married again.He didn't miss her that much.

[@papablues050164]

11:35 Yep, he's really straining his muscles there.

[@Egerwer]

He had a bad arm.......

[@heartoftenacity1479]

Baron Von Grijffenbourg He died in the 40's

[@heartoftenacity1479]

Professor E Bad is an understatement

[@borussiagermania4089]

Heart of Tenacity. Yes the German Emporer Wilhelm II died in the early 40s but he was in his late 60s when this footage was recorded. One would hardly expect a man in his late 60s to be swinging a massive wood bowsaw even if he is Prussian and from the Hohenzollern family. 😃

[@vonJezierski]

Thank you ❤❤❤

[@johnvonshepard9373]

Sad ending.

[@edwardspringer5056]

. ..

[@StephenChallen]

Vasilis Yiakoumi thank you very much. Kind regards. Stephen. Many people have responded positively to my post since 2014.

[@ha6ni6el6]

The real tragedy of Kaiser Wilhelm lay with the moment of his birth, a breach birth where incompetent physicians pulling him out by his left arm, so damaged the nerve endings that the arm remained crippled for life! His mother also rejected him despite his attempts to win her love, resulting in an Aedipus Complex! His damaged arm resulted in a life-long attempt to assert himself by physical means to overcome his disability, such as sailing a small boat, literally single-handed, in extreme weather in the Solent, Isle of Wight, during Cowes Week. He also, with specially adapted shotguns, took part in shooting parties & became one of the best shots in Germany!! He was also expected to be a war lord, like Frederick the Great, when, in his heart, he most wanted to be an English-style country gentleman, a type he admired & envied, which, ironically, in exile in Doorn, he finally almost achieved until his death!! Perhaps his last years were his most peaceful & happiest at last! I feel that he was NOT an evil man, but, if understood, more to be pitied than hated, more victim than villain!!

[@hodor9851]

Underrated

[@ha6ni6el6]

@@hodor9851 Who and what is, "underated"? One word does not constitute either a point, nor an argument, for or against my assessment of Wilhelm, with whom, I assert, I am sympathetic!

[@hodor9851]

@@ha6ni6el6 underrated I refer to is your comment :P

[@ha6ni6el6]

@@hodor9851 So with what do you disagree? What is "underated"?? A comment cannot be simply "underated" unless you mean that the subject of the comment, ie. Kaiser Wilhelm has, himself been underated by others! I did not criticise him in any way, but based upon much that has been reported about him, simply offered an analysis of what made him the person he was, from a human point of view, NOT the stereotype offered by his critics & detractors who reduced him to a cut-out figure of evil! On the contrary, I've always believed that he was NOT a 2-dimensional symbol of a war lord, but a victim of his childhood & much maligned by history, being much more complex than his critics ever gave him credit for! If you think that I underated him, fine!! But saying that my comment was "underated" makes no sense & contributes nothing to a discussion of Wilhelm the man! Try to offer YOUR analysis of his character which so far has been absent! I didn't criticise him!! Just tried to understand him as a human being, caught up in circumstances over which he had little control! In fact, I am a Monarchist and have always been sympathetic to Wilhelm! So your one-word reply makes NO sense! So that reply is, "underated"!! Got it?? Oder, als Engländer, trotzdem das Deutsch ist nicht meine erste Sprache, versuch mal ein Antwort auf Deutsch das vielleicht ich besser verstehen kannst u. mehr Bedeutung hast!

[@hodor9851]

@@ha6ni6el6 no no no, by underated I meant your comment deserves more likes. Underated as in "rated way under it should"

[@hrhjrd]

As I understand it, the Kaiser didn't start the war but had the power to stop it if he really had wanted to. Letters exchanged between he and King George V, his first cousin, pointed in that direction.

[@doliague2590]

I beg to differ he didn't have the power to stop the war he tried but he didn't have the power to even control Germanys military.

[@albertcamerato7673]

Tragedy, buffoonery, Germany had the largest merchant fleet in the world,carried the largest part of the European migration B4 the war to all parts of the world. Albert Ballin German head of the Hamburg line, tried, along with other industrialists to keep peace with Germans trading partners, but the junkers that pandered to the Kaisers weakness for military solutions, won out. Many of the troop carriers that carried the American army to France in 1917 were German liners that were trapped in North America at the start of the war. Had Berlin given Ballin some idea of its plans, those ships would have been in homeward bound with food in 1914.

[@binaway]

In 1914 the German merchant fleet was 2,090 ships with a gross tonnage of 5,164,,720. Britain's merchant fleet was had 8,587 ships with a gross tonnage of 18,892,089. Less than 33%

[@kennytatum6592]

albert camerato xXxX

[@HabboFinHands]

Willy come back ;_; !

[@gloriouskaiser6610]

Punpun God sorry pal, this coffin has great WiFi.

[@Normlaure0]

I understood that is precisely what he wanted and as he was a staunch anti-semite and believed Hitler would reinstate him as the Kaiser of the Nazi Germany.More interestingly perhaps is what he and his family lived on during his sojourn in Holland. It has been reported that his 'empty train' was in fact stuffed with war loot, so it is fair to assume that this helped more than a bit.

[@kaiserwilliamll5280]

Willy ain't coming back today

[@flyingdutchman3895]

Kaiser William ll , there is now an king willem in the netherlands .

[@Wombat1916]

Flying Dutchman After Charles III there will be a William V in the UK. Your point is?

[@frglee]

I once visited Huis Doorn, coincidentally a few months after a trip to Osborne House on the Isle of Wight - where the young 'Willy' would spend time with his grandmother and British family. Even then, he could be quite difficult to deal with, and Queen Victoria had a house built for him on the estate for when he stayed. The older Willy in asylum at Doorn seemed a quieter and happier man, judging by the excellent interpretive exhibitions at the museum and kept out of politics in deference to his Dutch hosts, but he sympathised with the Nazis and was intensely anti-semitic. However, Huis Doorn seems to have been a pleasant and warm home for the ex-Kaiser and Princess Hermine, his second wife, who managed the estate and had somewhat more moderate views that her husband. Interestingly, she returned to Germany after Wilhelm's death in 1941. She was captured and imprisoned by the Red Army, released and lived in a small flat guarded by the Red Guard in Frankfurt an der Oder until 1947, where she died of a heart attack, just 59 years old.

[@constancemontfort8496]

He was jealous of his English cousin, George. He wanted to show that he had a bigger navy than George had...a family fued.

[@henkei3]

Constance: Yes and England could not let that happen could it?

[@MrSkeeja]

You mean Edward. Queen Victoria's son who became Edward VII

[@isaelhernandez4971]

MrSkeeja Nope he's right, seeing how George V became King on May of 1910

[@antman5474]

he had a nice toy boat

[@borussiagermania4089]

England was and remains jealous of Germany and its technological, industrial and scientific achievements. Since the beginning of the 20th century Britain decided it would go to war against Germany. Basically Britain first used the Polish and Serbs to spark the flame of war and then got the American, French and Russians to do the fighting... Ironically the policy of "divide and conquer" used by Britain caused the end of the British Empire and Europe ended up being controlled by the non European America and Russia.

[@south7eventh]

The only person who was able to place pressure upon the Kaiser in the decade of 1901 to 1910 was King Edward VII of the British Isles, Because of all the family connections Edward was very influential as the last ruler in Europe of his generation. He was used to meeting members of family and discussing and settling matters of state without political interference. He was a noted Francophile and his influence upon republican France was as strong as upon the Monarchies. The incident in Sarajevo would have been dealt with behind closed doors if Edward was still alive. Unfortunately he succumbed to overeating and excessive smoking in 1910 and the Kaiser then had no restraints upon his political ambitions, The result World War I.

[@florisdevries]

When Wihelm II died his funeral was full of swastika's like 13:03 what he didn't wanted.

[@padaro4504]

@HBB There is no "Nazi" military uniform. Or is the Bundeswehr wearing CDU uniforms?

[@nandor41]

thank you and congratulation to you for excellent docu..

[@johnwinterbottom1072]

It amazes me how a weak-minded petty man can influence world history.

[@lray1948]

especially if they are assassins of great or prominent men, or they're leaders of powerful countries.

[@ChildrensSongStorytimeCorner]

Very nice short tribute!

[@MrPoupard]

A fascinating episode of history rarely, if ever, examined in the UK. Can't help feeling that he should have been hanged after the war as a war criminal, 'tho who said life was fair.

[@teargass1849]

+MrPoupard why??? He was not a war criminal.

[@MS4View]

+MrPoupard So must be hanged along with him the ruling members of British establishment of the time especially the head of the foreign office Mr. Grey and Mr. Churchill as the first lord of the admiralty! Because they are the real war criminals, who started this unimaginable bloodbath war along with his puppets - France and Russia only to bring Germany down as the most dangerous rival in the world for the British Empire at the time both commercially and in military aspect!

[@henkei3]

why because he wanted a larger navy? Or because Germany developed to rapidly and became serious competition on the world market? Ever examined that Mr.Poupard?

[@danteardenz2670]

MrPoupard For what ? Would the Allied Leadership who Declared War on Germany ,and rejected all peace terms ,until total destruction ,then imposed Versaille on Central Europe ,backed Red Revolution been hanged too ? That war was about wiping out Germany as world competition . It was European suicide for International Banking / World Communism.

[@StephenChallen]

Daniela Collazo Thank you very much. KInd regards. Stephen.

[@Kaiserbill99]

Kaiser William ii was a warmonger. He had an obsession with trying to match Britain militarily and in so doing raised tensions. Whilst Germany cannot be blamed for WW1 to the same extent as it can for WW2 it was after all Germany that invaded Belgium on its way towards France which provided the trigger for the war on the Western Front i.e. Germany was the aggressor.

[@philiph6456]

Yesah, an "aggressor" after France and Russia declared war First, and simultaneously. The von Schlieffen Plan dictated movement through Belgium, which the King being a vassal of the Kaiser, should have granted free passage, but didn't for fear of the French if Germany didn't succeed. You want to blame someone? Blame these two idiots... Berchtold + Hötzendorf, whose ultimatum triggered the Austro Hungarian-Serbian crises!! Germany propped up an empire that was no real empire.....like it did at Vienna....with Baden, Bavaria and Poland under Jan Sobieski fighting against the Turks while the Austrians cowered in Vienna!! Germany's Belgian invasion was the excuse the British used....for their aggressive behavior.All European countries wanted that war....but not the cost, in the end!!

[@Kaiserbill99]

Sorry but you seem to be obtaining your history from a kids'comic. It was Austro-Hungary, with support of its ally Germany, that declared war first and on Serbia, an ally of Russia. Germany declared war on both Russia and France not the other way round and Germany invaded Belgium knowing that Britain was a guarantor of Belgium neutrality. The German Chancellor remarked that the Treaty of London that guaranteed Belgium neutrality "was but a scrap of paper".

[@nickolascrossland2635]

Kaiserbill99 if only the war didn't happen

[@Riddarstolphe]

*cough* allied landing at Salonika *cough*

[@croatianknight1160]

+Kaiserbill99 What were British, Russians and Serbs! Who told that Serb Bastard to shoot anyone? Somebody should have shot the British King and if England reacted, Britan should have been called War Mongers. Assholes had more respect for a grubby Serb assassin and his Black Hand terror network than the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

[@metalgamerk9549]

Very interesting. Thank you.

[@138boris]

Bring back the king.❤save Germany.